werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (08/09/85)
For several years a PhD named Burton has operated a clinic in the Bahamas that offered so-called "Immune Assistance Therapy" for cancer victims. The "treatment" consisted of pooling the blood from several victims and reinjecting it. The clinic was closed down last year by the FDA because of possible Hepatitis B contamination of the blood. There have been protests in Washington (and I recently saw a letter to the Editor in the NY Daily News) to reopen the clinic. Actually, Hepatitis B might have been the least of the worries. Recently samples of the clinic's blood were positive for the virus that causes AIDS,so the clinic may have transmitted AIDS to as many as a thousand people. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"