Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, September 9, 1983 Doctor says AIDS cases the tip of the iceberg’ United Press International BOSTON — AIDS is probably far more widespread than pre viously believed, with many peo ple unwitting carriers, because the disorder may also have a mil der, non-fatal form, the nation’s top AIDS investigator warned Wednesday. Dr. James Curran of the Cen ters for Disease Control in Atlanta said the method to diagnose and report AIDS, which attacks the body’s immune system, “leads to an underestimation of the size and severity of the problem.” In an interview, he said the 2,157 AIDS cases — 852 of them fatal — reported as of the third week of August may be “essential ly the tip of the iceberg. ” Curran wrote an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine to mark the two-year anniversary since Acquired Immune Deficien cy Syndrome was first officially re ported. He said in diagnosing AIDS doctors should check if vic tims — mostly homosexual men — have such infections associated with the disease as a rare form of cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and an uncommon type of pneumonia. The cause of AIDS remains a mystery and there is no test for the disease itself. But Curran, an epidemiologist who heads the CDC’s AIDS Activ ity unit, wrote it “is also likely that a variety of chronic symptoms” that also may be the result of other diseases — swollen lymph glands, recurrent fevers and weight loss — “are related to the syndrome. ” Such disorders have been found among homosexuals, hemophi liacs, drug abusers and Haitians, the high risk groups for AIDS. Doctors believe it is transmitted through contaminated blood pro- ParRway APARTMENTS 693-6540 THE RIGHT FLOOR PLAN AT THE RIGHT PRICE at site shuttlebus service covered parking sauna 2 pools clubroom next door to Bee Creek Park Open 7 days a week 1600 S.W. Parkway 2 bdrm/2 bath 975 sq. 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Some may go on to develop a more serious case or it’s also possible the milder symptoms perhaps may ultimately persist.” “The good news is that the syn drome may have an overall lower fatality rate,” he said. “The bad news is that more people may have it.” Eighty percent of people with AIDS — as presently defined — die within two years because they have a damaged defense system that is unable to ward off disease. In another AIDS report in the journal, doctors said an unusual type of human interferon that has previously been found in homose xual AIDS patients has also been discovered in the blood of two hemophiliacs who only moriths la ter developed diagnosable AIDS. The doctors from Pennsylvania State University said if corrobo rated with further research, the finding might lead to using the un usual form of interferon — a subst ance normally produced by the body to fight disease — as a “mar ker for the early detection of AIDS.” GOOP EVEWIA/G. 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