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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Sept. 6, 1985
Officials defend AIDS case
United Press International
SWANSEA, Mass. -- In what is believed to be the first case in the country of a youngster attending public school who is known to have Acquired Immunity Disease, school officials yesterday defended their decision allowing him to attend a junior high school
School Superintendent John McCarthy said the student, who has not been identified to protect his privacy, has been attending Case Junior High School since classes began Aug. 27.
"This was not an off-the-cuff decision." McCarthy said, "and it wasn't easy."
"In recognition of the rights of the student involved, department officials elected to continue the youngster's educational program in the school setting."
In contrast with a similar situation in Kokomo, Ind., in which a 13-year-old hemophiliac AIDS victim, Ryan White, was barred from school last month, McCarthy said the decision to admit the Swansea boy was based on his doctor's assurances that normal school contact would not lead to transmission of AIDS, an incurable disease.
In another case, the guardians of a child in New Haven, Conn., were notified last week that the youngster, who is suffering from an AIDS-related complex, would not be allowed to receive a regular classroom education.
And in the nation's capital, school officials barred a student from classrooms because he was exposed to the AIDS virus.
McCarthy said that the Swansea student, who contracted the disease as a result of treatment for hemophilia, was admitted because it was the right thing to do.
He said that there had been no clamor demanding the youngster's ouster from the school.
Officials at Town Hall received several calls from parents, but most were supportive, said Michael Fingles, executive secretary for the Board of Selectmen.
"Our superintendent has done his homework," Fingles said, "and I have every confidence in his decision."
"People can be sensitive in this kind of situation when they know the facts."
Hemophiliacs account for 1 percent of reported AIDS cases, while
homosexual or bisexual men account for 71 percent, intravenous drug users account for 17 percent, Haitians for 5 percent and others for 6 percent.
McCarthy said Swansea school officials initially decided against informing the parents of other children at the school in order to protect the boy's privacy but his presence was disclosed by a newspaper.
Harold G. Devine Jr., the principal, said he planned to hold an informational forum as soon as possible.
Devine said parents and students had been supportive, but he was concerned about the boy.
ATLANTA — In revised guidelines aimed at eliminating AIDS virus from the blood supply, federal health officials recommended yesterday that any man who has had sex with another man even once in the last eight years refrain from donating blood.
Gay men asked not to give blood
The Associated Press
The latest recommendation from the Food and Drug Administration, published by the Atlantic-based national Centers for Disease Control, applies even to men "who may have had only a single contact, and who do not consider
For years, the CDC has considered homosexual or bisexual men with multiple sexual partners to be at increased risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
themselves homosexual or bisexual."
The FDA stopped short of saying that any man who has ever had a homosexual encounter is increasing his risk for AIDS. "But we would certainly consider them able to be carriers," said Susan Cruzan, a spokeswoman for the FDA.
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is an affliction in which the body's immune system becomes unable to resist disease. It is believed to be caused by an unusual virus discovered in France and the United States.
AIDS is most likely to strike homosexuals, abusers of injectable drugs and hemophiliacs. It can apparently be spread by sexual contact, contaminated needles and blood transfusions, but not by casual contact.
Interviews with donors of AIDS virus-positive blood showed "homosexual contact" to be "the most common risk factor identified," the FDA reported.
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BERLIN — A message in a bottle dropped into the Baltic Sea was found nine years later in San Francisco, the East Berlin daily newspaper Tribune said yesterday.
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