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Research: AIDS
develops rapidly
in infected infants
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) —
Forty percent of infants born with
the AIDS virus develop the disease
or a related illness by the time they
are 10 months old, researchers said
Tuesday.
By contrast, studies of AIDS in
fections in adults show that it takes
about nine years for 40 percent of an
infected group to develop the AIDS
disease, researchers said at the
Fourth International Conference on
AIDS.
In the largest study done of AIDS
transmission to newborns, European
researchers followed for up to two
years 219 infants of mothers with
AIDS.
It appears that 25 percent to 30
percent of the babies will themselves
be infected with the virus.
Of the infected infants, 40 per
cent will go on to develop AIDS or a
related illness, said the study’s direc
tor, Dr. Catherine Peckham of the
Institute of Child Health in London.
That rate is considerably lower
than earlier studies about the AIDS
virus had suggested, she said.
The reason is that earlier studies
concentrated only on infants who
were visibly sick or born to mothers
who had already had an AIDS-in
fected child.
The rate of infection would be un
usually high in those studies because
they focused on children who were
determined to be most likely to get
sick from the virus.
The European study includes all
infants born to infected mothers,
Peckham said.
“The main conclusion is that a
majority of the children are well,”
she said in an interview.
Dr. James Goedert of the U.S. Na
tional Cancer Institute confirmed
that the transmission rates in the Eu
ropean study are comparable to
rates being seen in the United States.
A study to be reported Wednes
day by Dr. Sheldon Landesman and
others at the State University of New
York in Brooklyn found an infection
rate of at least 40 percent in new
borns of mothers with the AIDS vi-
An important problem in such
studies is the difficulty of diagnosing
infants infected with the virus, Peck
ham said.
There is no test to separate infants
who are infected from those who are
merely carrying AIDS antibodies
they received from their mothers be
fore birth.
Such antibodies can remain in the
infants’ bloodstreams up to 15
months — even if the children are
not infected, Peckham said.
“Until that clears up, you can’t tell
whether they’re infected,” she said
in an interview.
“It’s very difficult to make an
early diagnosis.”
Goedert noted that it is also im
possible to be sure that the infants
who lose the antibodies are not in
fected.
“The biggest uncertainty is how to
interpret that,” he said.
“A fair portion of those children
do have health problems,” he said,
but it is not clear whether those
problems reflect infection with the
AIDS virus or simply other health
related problems.
On Wednesday, Dr. Steven Wo-
linsky of Northwestern University in
Evanston, Ill. will report that it may
be possible to identify AIDS virus
genetic material and thus confirm
AIDSinfections before the mother’s
antibodies disappear from the child.
Wolinsky is experimenting with
the so-called PCR, or polymerase
chain reaction test, which appears to
provide a very sensitive means for
detecting the AIDS virus even in the
infant situation.
Peckham and her colleagues be
gan their study more than two years
ago.
The 219 infants being followed
come from eight European cities, in
cluding some where drug abuse is
unusually high.
The mothers range in age from
16 to 38, and 98 percent of them are
white.
Eighty-six percent are intrave
nous drug abusers, and 52 of the
children have shown signs of drug
withdrawal.
Ten infants have had AIDS or
AIDS-related-complex, a disease
that sometimes precedes the AIDS
virus, and half of them have died.
Sixteen infants showed signs of ill
ness but did not have AIDS or
AIDS-related complex.
Officers clean up drug-infested streets
WASHINGTON (AP) — New
York City police were making
thousands of undercover arrests
in the drug-infested Lower East
Side, but frightened residents
were unaware of their presence,
Police Commissioner Benjamin
Ward told senators at a hearing
Tuesday.
So Ward sent in uniformed of
ficers, who sometimes turned on
their sirens simply to announce to
the residents they had arrived in
the neighborhood. He brought in
police dogs who couldn’t smell a
barrel of cocaine, but barked like
hell.
Testifying before a Senate Ju
diciary Committee hearing on
drug enforcement, Ward said he
now believes that use of uni
formed officers on neighborhood
streets is the most important type
of drug enforcement operation.
Pravda opens to critical comments
MOSCOW (AP) — The Com
munist Party newspaper Pravda
on Tuesday opened its pages to
critics who charged that the party
shares the guilt for Josef Stalin’s
abuses and for fostering corrup
tion and disillusionment in Soviet
society.
A full page of comments by
, participants in a' round-table dis
cussion at the Institute of Marx
ism-Leninism backed the party
Central Committee’s call in May
for redefinition of the party’s role
in Soviet society.
The commentary came one
day after the Soviet Supreme
Court cleared three Bolsheviks —
Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev
and Karl Radek — of the crimes
for which they were shot or im
prisoned in the 1930s.
Capital punishment takes 100th life
ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A man
who used a hammer to kill a
woman he romanced went calmly
to his death Tuesday in Louisia
na’s electric chair, the 100th per
son executed in this country since
capital punishment was re
instated in the 1970s.
Asked if he had a final
statement, Edward Byrne Jr. ap
peared to say “Nope.” A window
separated him from reporters
who witnessed his death.
Byrne, 28, insisted he never in
tended to kill Roberta Johnson in
August 1984, only to rob her.
“I just attempted to knock her
unconscious,” Byrne said at a last-
minute hearing before the state
Pardon Board on Monday. “It
didn’t work. She didn’t become
unconscious. I just kept hitting
her until she did.”
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