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Tuesday, September 1, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Redefinition to expand AIDS count Officials say new wording recognizes many more cases
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The nation's AIDS count, now at more than 40,000, will begin to increase noticeably today as federal health officials begin counting thousands of cases they have never before recognized.
The increase comes from a change in the official, medical definition of AIDS by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Officials will not announce that thousands of Americans thought to have suffered from other diseases actually had AIDS. And the disease will not suddenly be found to be attacking groups not previously considered at risk.
Rather, the CDC will begin listing in its AIDS statistics patients whose physicians may have presumed they had the deadly disease but whose cases did not meet the agency's definition.
As those cases are added to the total, more Americans than ever before will be deemed AIDS patients. This is why now such number more than 23,000.
Federal health officials estimate that the case count could increase by 10 percent to 15 percent.
"I expect there will be a jump over the course of a month or two," said Dr. Tim Dondero, chief of the surveillance and evaluation branch for the CDC's AIDS program.
"We know that a number of states have a backlog of cases initially picked up and labeled 'suspect' cases, or 'AIDS-like disease,' that will now qualify as AIDS under the new definition. How long it takes to report them, we don't know," he said.
The goal is to give state and federal health officials a more accurate picture of how widespread AIDS is. Dondero said researchers have, since the disease was first reported in 1981, been careful not to be too quick to pronounce a case AIDS.
The new definition, approved by state epidemiologists earlier this year, adds a number of cases that previously were diagnosed only presumptively, without laboratory confirmation. Certain cases of AIDS-related emaciation, tuberculosis infection or dementia also will be added.
"What we worry about is being sufficiently specific — not calling things that are not AIDS AIDS." Dondero said.
The advent of the test that signals infection with the virus that causes AIDS has enabled doctors and researchers to better confirm cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. There is no known cure for the disease, which destroys the immune system.
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What we worry about is being sufficiently specific not calling things that are not AIDS AIDS.'
- Tim Dondero Center for Disease Control chief
"The bottom line," Dondero said, "is that there are a limited number of conditions that are so . . . clinically characteristic that, in combination with antibody evidence (the test) — that's AIDS."
Reporting AIDS cases to state and federal health officials takes time and paperwork. And in some states where the disease is most prevalent,
the new definition will mean more work for busy doctors and researchers.
"Some of our physicians are already pretty overwhelmed reporting AIDS cases that meet the current definition," said Dr. Deborah Holtzman, an AIDS program epidemiologist at Loreda Department of Health and Babylon.
Florida has reported 2,754 cases of AIDS. third-highest in the nation.
Florida will review a number of cases that "just haven't met the (old) definition," she said.
Texas, which has reported 2,738 AIDS cases, fourth-high, has on file information on at least "a couple of hundred" cases that were previously suspected to be AIDS and now mandated total removal. David Metcalfe, data manager for the Texas Office of Epidemiology's AIDS program.
"It will take a little time to get all the numbers entered, but we have (information on) most of those cases now," she said.
New York, with 11,656 cases, ranks first; California, at 9,419, is second. Those states probably will see the addition of hundreds of cases.
Jacksonmaniacs say 'Bad' is good
"Every other call seems to be, Is the Michael out yet?" said Foster Grimm, floor manager of a Sam Goody store in Manhattan.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Record stores encountered a new wave of Michael Jackson mania yesterday as fans around the country flocked to buy "Bad," his first album in four years.
Grimm predicted he would sell all of his store's 400 records, 500 compact discs and 600 cassettes in the summer. They were outside, but business was brisk.
"The reviews were so positive they overcame my skepticism," said customer Victor Love, a New York actor.
"The price was right," said Tom Walker, 32, of Washington, D.C., who stopped to buy "Bad" while in town on business.
The records and cassettes, priced at $6.99, and compact discs, $12.99, were placed in prominent displays that were emptied twice in the first hour.
"It's been constant. It's been nuts. If they're not just buying Michael Jackson, then their order includes Jackson," Foster said. "I'll go home exhausted but not depressed. This ranks up there with 'Springteen Live' and the first Beatles CD."
Another record store chain, Record World, ran full-page advertisements after ordering 60,000 albums for its 68 stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, said Steven Lerner, director of purchasing.
"We're anticipating a pretty huge turnout," Lerner said. "I think it's going to go out in four to six weeks. That would make it the biggest album of the year up to date. This should top the Whitney (Houston)."
About 15 people were in line when the Record World store at the Roosevelt Field mall on Long Island served up to a.m. manager Rob Waters said.
Boston immigrant kills relatives, self
Police say man feared "loss of face" if theft from family were reported to police
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Authorities investigating the worst murder-suicide in Boston history said a fear of lost honor may have motivated a Vietnamese immigrant to open fire on relatives who sponsored his entry into the United States.
Five people were killed Sunday afternoon, and two more were critically injured before 23-year-old Minh Huathee, a comrade with an Uzi automatic weapon.
All but one of the victims was related to Le.
Police spokesman John Gillespie said investigators determined the shooting followed a dispute over money.
"It was an issue of him using money from his aunt's account without that aunt's authority," Gillespie said. "He'd been confronted by the
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It was an issue of him using money from his aunt's account without that aunt's authority.'
Le, who had no criminal record, apparently feared the confrontation with his relatives and their threats to turn him in to police would result in a loss of honor, Gillespie said.
"In Vietnamese culture, they call it
the investigation is going to that direction."
A survivor of the attack, David Huynh, said Le allegedly stole $1,800 from Huynh's mother's bank account.
"We may never know exactly what happened." Gillespie said. "I'm sure I didn't think so."
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Le, who came to the United States from Vietnam about four years ago, had a special gun permit from the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety, said police spokesman Jack Kervin, who added that Le's purchase of the Israeli-made Ui was legal. A fully loaded 22-caliber rifle was also found near the scene of the shootings.
Hamilton Perkins, a Public Safety Department firearms specialist, said aliens could apply for special permits
DiWanna Salmons, 14, lives across the street from the three-story, six-apartment building where the shootings occurred. "He came running at me," Salmons said. "He chased me into my yard, but he slipped on a piece of board."
Le's victims were his 52-year-old uncle, Duc Huyhun; a 48-year-old aunt, Xuan Xue; two female cousins, Thau Huynh, 23, and Tru Vu, 26; and 24-year-old Mei Geir.
Police trying to learn more about Le wondered how he managed on his hotel maintenance worker's salary to travel in recent months from Boston to New York, Salt Lake City and Ottawa, Canada.
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Kenneth Spencer Research Library "Right Here . . . in River City" exhibition
Kellas Gallery 7 East 7th St. Allen Ginsberg photographs
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