And a few short takes.And a few short takes * A multicenter European study coordinated by the World Health Organization finds that female-to-male sexual transmission of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. is enhanced during menstruation menstruation, periodic flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in humans and most other primates, occurring about every 28 days in women. Menstruation commences at puberty (usually between age 10 and 17). , perhaps via virus in menstrual blood Noun 1. menstrual blood - flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years menorrhea, menstrual flow adult female body, woman's body - the body of an adult woman cells. * Patricia Fultz of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta reports preliminary evidence that HIV-infected chimpanzees may be developing AIDS four to six years after inoculation inoculation, in medicine, introduction of a preparation into the tissues or fluids of the body for the purpose of preventing or curing certain diseases. The preparation is usually a weakened culture of the agent causing the disease, as in vaccination against . If confirmed, this would be the first naturally occurring, nonhuman animal to get HIV-induced AIDS. * Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. in Baltimore find that few emergency room personnel at the university's hospital use AIDS-protecting gowns, gloves and masks despite a known HIV infection rate of 6 to 18 percent in emergency patients. They also wonder if the $500,000 Hopkins spent to improve availability of these protections is worthwhile when 80 percent of HIV infections in health workers result from inadvertent needle sticks rather than skin exposure. |
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