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Texas ranks fifth
in AIDS victims
Associated Press
DALLAS — Less than four years
ago, the first cases of AIDS were di
agnosed in the United States —
mostly in New York and San Fran
cisco. But in the past year, AIDS —
known medically as “acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome” because
it destroys the body’s ability to fight
disease — has spread to Texas and
elsewhere across the nation.
Texas now ranks fifth in overall
AIDS incidence.
Cities with large homosexual pop
ulations were where most of the
cases were occurring, with many of
the victims reporting that they fre-
quented homosexual “health clubs.”
With at least 7,788 cases now re
ported in the United Slates and 357
in Texas, the federal government
will pump almost $97.5 million this
fiscal year into research and public
education on the disease, the Dallas
Times Herald reported Sunday.
“It is the highest priority research
item in the public health services at
the moment,” said Wilmon Rushing,
AIDS program management officer
at the national Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta.
Last week, two scientific groups
independently reported completing
analyses of the genetic material of
the virus that is believed to cause the
deadly disease.
Recently, the Food and Drug Ad
ministration said it expects soon to
approve a commercial blood test that
can determine whether a person has
been exposed to AIDS and may be a
carrier of it.
In Dallas and other major cities,
gay leaders and health officials are
urging gay men to use prophylactics
and to abstain from promiscuous
sex aal activity.
Across the country, an average of
168 people die every month, officials
add. In Dallas County, epidemiolog
ists say, AIDS deaths now are occur
ring at the rate of one every 10 days.
“A year and a hall ago, it was
somebody else getting AIDS,” said
Bill Appleman, executive director of
a counseling center in Dallas’ gay
community. Now it is people we
know — friends or lovers.”
“Virtually every city where we’ve
looked at this, the same phenome
non has occurred,” said Dr. Peter
Drotman, a CDC epidemiologist.
“You see an exponential increase,
doubling every six or 10 months.” al
most 40 percent of all reported
AIDS cases. New York has been hit
hardest by the disease, followed by
California, Florida and New Jersey,
according to CDC officials.
In Dallas County, where gay activ
ists estimate the homosexual popula
tion at more than 75,000, a total of
95 adults have been stricken, says
Dr. Charles Haley, the chief epide
miologist at the Dallas County
Health Department.
So far, the virus has shown a fatal
ity rate of about 80 percent, killing
some victims quickly and causing
others to suffer for two or more
years.
Victims often suffer from fever,
night sweats, swollen glands, weight
loss, diarrhea, fevers, fatigue and
loss of appetite as germs normally
repelled by the immune system at
tack the body.
San Antonio fights
dump expansion
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Mayor Henry
Cisneros says he will go to Gov. Mark
White if necessary to halt the expan
sion of a landfill a half mile from a
proposed site for a Sea World
aquatic park.
Browning-Ferris Industries is
seeking state approval to expand a
southeast Bexar County landfill by
100 acres.
The dump is just east of a 500-
acre tract of land the city purchased
last week for $8.2 million for the Sea
World park.
County Judge Tom Vickers has
written to the stale health commis
sioner asking for new hearings on
the proposed expansion.
Thursday, the city council voted
unanimously to recommend the
state deny permission for the expan
sion.
“It has become a very dear case of
either stop the expansion or risk
damaging Sea World,” Cisneros
said.
The mayor said the proposed ex
pansion “might well result in a reas
sessment of the site by Sea World.”
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.,
the parent company of Sea World,
has not voiced concern about the ex
pansion, Cisneros said.
But he said he would be a “mighty
poor mayor indeed” if he waited for
Sea World to complain before the
city took action.
The mayor also said he owes it to
the residents of southeast Bexar
County to fight the expansion, even
if Sea World does not object.
“This could have a detrimental ef
fect on the development of that area
that Sea World’s going to bring,” he
said. v
He also promised to take the mat
ter to White, “if that’s what it takes.”
BFI is seeking to nearly double
the size of its 125-acre landfill.
John Richards, a hearing exam
iner for the Texas Department of
Health, has given preliminary ap
proval for the expansion.
Richards said it is possible the case
will be reopened and more testi
mony taken.
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