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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Bermuda Cancer (?) Clinic and AIDS
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 21:05:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 21:05:18 1985
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	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
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"