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College Skaggs Center Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, August 14, 1987 World and Natior Officials recommend AIDS te — for people in high-risk groups By ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials Thursday recom mended routine AIDS testing for the sex partners of AIDS virus car riers, people with other sexually transmitted diseases and users of in- jectible narcotics, among other groups. The U.S. Public Health Service’s official AIDS testing recommenda tions, issued after months of public debate, stressed that individuals in these categories had the right to re fuse the tests. The recommendations came on the same day federal health officials acknowledged the number of re ported cases will be increased with a new clinical definition for AIDS. The PHS recommended that while “individuals have the right to decline,” health professionals should begin “routine (AIDS) counseling and testing” for: • Patients with sexually trans mitted diseases. • Drug users who injected their narcotics. • Women of childbearing-age at risk of AIDS infection, chiefly through drug abuse or sexual con tact. • Patients infected with tubercu losis, which can be compounded by an AIDS infection. • Sex partners of infected peo ple. • Those sharing drug needles with infected people. The national Centers for Disease Control said the goal of the testing is “to reduce further spread of infec tion,” with priority on “persons who are most likely to be infected or who practice high-risk behaviors.” AIDS, reported most often among homosexual men and abus ers of injectible drugs, is most fre quently transmitted through sex or contaminated drug needles. It also can be transmitted from mother to fetus. The PHS also recommended the availability of AIDS testing for any one who believes himself at risk for AIDS, and testing of male and fe male prostitutes by local and state ju risdictions. Further, the agency called for prison systems to study means of testing their inmates — federal in mates are already under a testing program — and for state and local officials to decide about routine, or even mandatory, AIDS tests for en gaged couples, taking into account “the prevalence of HIV (AIDS virus) infection in the area.” The federal government’s recom mendations do not include several controversial proposals floated at a public meeting in February — man- ital | datory testing for hospital patients, engaged couples and other groups. Those ideas were met with harsh criticism from AIDS activists and civil rights groups. In the recommendations released Thursday by the GDC, federal health officials called for every rea sonable effort ... to improver ente dentiality of test results.” Slot ker Bui While confidentiality is cru( : naiiila f°ld< increasing the number of peoplR^ a favor ing tested for AIDS, “it is of ca H greater importance that the p.I e y fiangei perceive that persons found tf ems , are positive will not be subject totffl ct * on rna propriate discrimination," the|j® e wear t said. M b °y shirl Federal health officials e!i: )0 j boots an that between 1 million and lljf ^ ,omb)rt; lion Ament .ms are infectedKid'jTU'K to l ll > virus whit h causes acquiredimr.|F'* en K , E deficiency syndrome; most art) 1UMacbe > aware they have the virus. Government scientistsbelie\;i,^ s ,be cb; 20 percent to 30 percent of tk : f* s | a S en< J a z fected with the AIDS virus vj° r ll ‘ s ' nt f r velop the deadly disease withir] n f asbs > T years. ieiglnnan.- The number of AIDS as(ir*| rma ^ „ nia ported in the United StateshaiH! art y’ passed 40,000. As of Morif* ie ean 40,051 cases had been repi 23,165 patients, or 59 percent, already died. Officials: Anchorage by Persian Gull safe, but crews still search for mines MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Officials closed part of a busy anchorage just south of the Persian Gulf where six mines were found, but declared it safe again after nightfall Thursday. Crews of four nations searched for more mines. Saudi police said in a delayed report that a Saudi Arabian coast guard vessel hit a mine at the northern end of the gulf Wednesday and two crewmen were slightly injured. The anchorage off Fujairah was a safe haven from the 7-year-old war between Iran and Iraq until the U.S-operated supertanker Texaco Ca ribbean struck a mine three days ago in the 35- square-mile area that was closed to traffic earlier Thursday. Six more have been found since the tanker was damaged Monday. They are the “spiked-globe’ tile type that explode on contact, and several ship- executives said they believe the mines were free-floating rather than tethered. Col. Saeed Samssoun, the Fujairah police chief, said Thursday night that a search of the coastal area found it free of mines, and “full safety” for international navigation had been en sured. Maritime executives in Fujairah said the radio had stopped broadcasting hourly warnings that began after the prohibition was announced. Iran has been accused of laying the mines but claims the United States is to blame and has of fered to help in the search. A dispatch from Iran’s official news agency quoted a naval commander as saying his ships would start minesweeping operations Friday, in international waters not specified, but would not work in the Fujairah area without permission. hman cc rette an< in a back When soi lame, Leigh Hi do for H student’ pen replies, jetya fixed i riting i< landing ays “You si Ht record.’ Ror years lived literatr s director The Saudi coast guard ship hit amine miles off the village of Khafji, more tkfai) at q” ex | miles northwest of the Fujairah anchorage qj arin „ j a police officer contacted by telephone in Kk j,, 197 j j ( The officer, who spoke on condition cjn4 :< Hmini<u nymity, declined to give further details. Honeer ed The mine was about 50 miles southeast prjd by sev wait’s Al-Ahmadi oil terminal, loading poiH The ob] U.S.-escorted Kuwaiti tankers. H to “tak •loy.ibles an Shipping sources said the United Araiiieading and rates declared a “danger zone" in theaM.ILeighma part of its anchorage 30 miles south of iki! “I nfortun where tankers transship oil and ships weren’t alwa supplies. It also has been used to assembkiiermanent si voys for trips up the gulf by Kuwaiti tanked ing American flags and escorted by warships. Researcher: Cat heart disease caused by lack of critical nutrient Strongbox from Titanic to be openec NEW YORK (AP) — Some com mercial cat foods caused a severe heart ailment in cats by failing to provide enough of a critical nutri ent, a study says. Cats suffering from the ailment were found to have inadequate amounts of the essential nutrient taurine in their bloodstreams. When the cats were given more taurine, the ailment was corrected, said Paul Pion, a veterinarian at the University of California in Davis. The ailment is called dilated car diomyopathy. It probably kills tens of thousands of cats a year in the United States, he said. There are 56.2 million family-owned cats in the country, according to the Pet Food Institute. It is similar to a human ailment that can be treated only with a heart transplant or an artificial heart. The cat research might one day lead to discovery of the cause and a treatment for the human disease, called congestive heart failure, Pion said Thursday. “What we have found applies di rectly only to cats,” he said. “Whether there’s a human compo nent, we don’t know yet. We have people who are looking at that.” A report of the findings will appear Friday in Science magazine. Pion, the lead author of the study, said most products found to cause low taurine in cats have been now been supplemented with taurine. “There’s no blame here, and there’s no way anybody could have known taurine deficiency caused this disease,” Pion said. Taurine is found in fish and meat, he said. The research began six months ago, Pion said, and by March pet food makers had already heard of the findings and had begun supple menting their products. Roy Martin, director of science and technology at the Pet Food Insti tute, said, “We’re confident today that the amount of taurine in most foods is adequate to meet the re quirements for the pets we are feed ing.” The Pet Food Institute in Washington, D.C. represents makers of pet foods. The foods that had been found to produce low taurine levels in Pion’s study were Hill’s C-D, Hill’s Science Diet Maintenance, Hill’s H-D, Pu rina Cat Chow, 9 Lives Beef and Liver, Blue Mountain Kitty O’s and Carnation Fancy Feast Beef and Liver, according to the Science mag azine report. Pion said that he believes the for mula for Blue Mountain Kitty O’s has been changed and all the other products have been supplemented with taurine. 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