CNN - news update and Health Week (partial) - 1992-04-11
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[0:00] Dan Rutz has more on the story in Health
[0:03] Week.
[0:07] The tennis great admitted having aged
[0:09] reluctantly fearing the announcement
[0:10] would violate his privacy. Ash said he
[0:13] found out four years ago after being
[0:14] diagnosed with toxopplasmosis, an
[0:16] infection that often shows up in people
[0:18] whose immune systems are weakened.
[0:20] Although he has full-fledged AIDS, Ash
[0:22] says the disease has not slowed him down
[0:24] much.
[0:26] In general,
[0:28] I am not sick.
[0:31] I live a very normal life. I can walk. I
[0:33] can play 36 holes of golf and walk. Uh I
[0:38] can uh do just about anything any of you
[0:41] all in here can do, unless you happen to
[0:42] run in the New York Marathon.
[0:45] Blood bank officials stress there is a
[0:46] very low risk of contracting AIDS from
[0:48] blood transfusions. Since blood bank
[0:50] screening began in 1985, the Centers for
[0:53] Disease Control says there have been
[0:54] just 20 confirmed cases out of 20
[0:57] million people who've received blood
[0:58] transfusions
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[1:07] [music]
[1:11] CNN Health Week.
[1:14] Welcome. [music] AIDS is estimated to be
[1:16] making its greatest gains in developing
[1:18] countries of Central Africa and Southern
[1:20] Asia, while there are signs of a
[1:22] leveling off of the epidemic in the
[1:23] United States and Western Europe. The
[1:25] head of the Harvard AIDS Institute says
[1:27] the worldwide AIDS epidemic is spreading
[1:29] faster than it otherwise would because
[1:31] of a lack of leadership among public
[1:33] health officials.
[1:35] But we are witnessing a massive
[1:37] collective global failure to deal with
[1:39] this epidemic. That is at the collective
[1:41] level, at the national level, the
[1:42] international level, we ar