[net.med] Aids screening

merrill@rex.DEC (10/21/85)

Headline: "Military to screen 2.1 million personel for AIDS antibody"

Sounds like they plan to test all personel AND their families.  This is
sure to raise some false positives and damage some careers thereby.


Question: If a test shows the antibodies, but the person is not suffering
from aids, couldn't that mean that that person SURVIVED an aids attack?

Is this going to be a case of doing the wrong thing for the right reason?
I.e. eliminating those who can resist aids along with those who have it?


	Rick Merrill

Posted:	Mon 21-Oct-1985 08:57 (Maynard_Time)
To:	NET$MED