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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-
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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.
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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.
PARIS (AP) — Treasure hi
have found one of the Til
strongboxes, researchers
Thursday, and they’ll openit®
television in October to see ifitl
any of the diamonds rumort
have been aboard the shipwr#
luxury liner.
The strongbox was discoj
Wednesday on the ocean fltx
miles below the surface at tl
tanic site, 350 miles south* 1
Newfoundland, said spol
Daniel Puget.
Legend has surrounded tht
sure that may have gonedoffl
the 1,513 passengers and ere*
drowned when the Titanichiut|
berg and sank April 15,1912.
The big prize was rumoreditj
strongbox containing diamond;
ing transported to the United
by DeBeers.
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