TITLE

The new AIDS mystery

AUTHOR(S)

Korn, Peter; Allen, Tracy

PUB. DATE

July 1994

SOURCE

Redbook;Jul94, Vol. 183 Issue 3, p80

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses AIDS cases with unknown means of transmission. Case of Whitney Williams and Jim Sharpe; Inefficiency of Center for Disease Control and Prevention's method of classifying cases; Effect of going public about having AIDS; Possibility of contracting AIDS through polio vaccines and medical and dental procedures.

ACCESSION #

9407071381

 

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