Transfusion patients risk AIDS
American scientists are scouring the country for the first case of the bizarre new disease “acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome” (AIDS) in patients who have undergone major surgery. The hunt for the cause of the disease, which was first diagnosed among male homosexuals, has now labelled as a prime suspect some unknown blood-borne virus. In just one year the list of people at risk from AIDS has lengthened from male homosexuals, drug-abusers and Haitians, to include the entire population. In the last year a task force under Dr Harold Jaffe at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, has found seven cases of…
