Thursday, Sept 12, 1985
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Disease spreads concern across U.S. AIDS strikes New York schools
United Press International
NEW YORK - Five New York City school employees, including teachers and a food-service worker, are on medical leave because they have AIDS, and three others who worked in the system last year have died from the disease. Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones disclosed yesterday.
5. Three additional employees, who received a medical leave of absence first year, also may have AIDS, Quinones said. The system, the nation's largest, has 100,000 workers.
The disclosure added to parent concern about the safety of their children in a system that this week was disrupted by a parent-organized boycott protesting a decision to allow a student who has AIDS to attend second grade.
Cathy Scherer, who has kept her son and daughter out of school for the past three days, said, "They've got to put an end to this. Of course it makes me more concerned. But my kids do
need an education. I can't keep them out forever.
Quinones insisted there was no danger to the 964,000 students in the 913 public schools.
"We're not talking about a disease so easily communicable as tuberculosis, for example," he said. "We continue to stress the two ways AIDS is communicated by blood and semen."
Quinones refused to say how many teachers had AIDS or where they taught. He would not disclose the jobs of the others except to say that one was a food-service worker.
Quinones said there was no screening system to determine whether Board of Education employees have contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome, an often-fatal disease, and officials have no plans to institute one.
Samuel Granir, an organizer of the parents' boycott, which has been confined to 63 schools in two districts in the borough of Queens, said the
disclosure "makes me much more concerned."
On Monday, the first day of the fall term, the boycott kept 18,000 students out of class, and on Tuesday the count was 10,000 and yesterday about 7,000 children stayed home.
"They're doing it with the Army, maybe they should do it with the Board of Education," he said. "I wouldn't want to take a chance."
Quinones said there was no telling how many more employees in the system might have the disease.
Graniren said the Board of Education should give all employees, especially food-service workers, blood tests to determine whether they have AIDS.
"Those with AIDS must be reported to the city's Department of Health by treating physicians," he said, but he emphasized that "the Department of Health has a positive obligation to guard the confidentiality of such persons."
Cocaine harmful, study shows
BOSTON — Cocaine use may be dangerous for pregnant women and their babies, causing spontaneous abortions, developmental disorders and life-threatening complications during birth, doctors reported yesterday.
Abortions, disorders occur
The increasing popularity of cocaine has doctors concerned that many women may be taking the drug before they know they are pregnant. Doctors also are concerned that the addictive properties of cocaine will force pregnant women to continue taking it after learning they are pregnant.
United Press International
The study compared 28 pregnant women who used cocaine during their pregnancy with similar women who did not use the drug and women who used narcotics. The study found women who used cocaine were more likely to suffer spontaneous abortions during the first three months of pregnancy than women who used heroin and other narcotics.
DENVER — Researchers yesterday confirmed suspicions that isobutyl nitrite, a recreational drug widely used as an aphrodiacii by homosexuals, increased the risk of contracting acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Study links 'rush' drug with AIDS
Four cocaine-use women suffered abruptions of the placenta, a dangerous complication in which the organ that filters blood between the infant and mother breaks loose, depriving the infant of oxygen and causing massive bleeding in the mother. If not treated immediately,
Scientists at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine said inhalation of isobutyl nitrite might further impair the body's ability to fight off infectious disease in people suffering from immune system abnormalities characteristic of AIDS.
"Current estimates are that around 4 to 5 million Americans use cocaine," said Ira J. Chasnoff, primary author of the study which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "We know from our experience and other studies that use and abuse of various drugs in women of child-bearing age are frequently quite high.
both mother and child may bleed to death.
United Press International
"Many of them are bound to be pregnant and don't know it. When they're addicted — even when they find out they're pregnant — they can't stop," he said.
"We believe our findings establish that inhaling isobutyl nitrite should be considered dangerous to homosexuals and others at high risk for AIDS," said P.R.J. Gangadharam, principal investigator in the research.
Gangdharam said isobutyl nitrite was known on the street as "rush."
The research involved special mice, bred at National Jewish, that were born with AIDS-like immune deficiencies. Gangdharam said the mice, after breathing isobutyl nitrite, became highly susceptible to disease and death caused by bacteria related to tuberculosis. Those bacteria are among the leading killers of people with AIDS.
Use of isobutyl nitrite and a similar compound, amyl nitrite, has been considered a possible AIDS risk factor since the disease was first identified in American homosexuals in 1981. The drugs, which are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, have been in common use in gay bars and bathhouses for 15 years.
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