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AFP, NATIONAL ARCHIVES photo 1946: Photo taken Aug. 1, 1946, in Tazewell County in Virginia shows Jewell Ridge Coal Company's doctor giving smallpox vaccination to children. U.S. military personnel and emergency workers soon will begin receiving smallpox vaccines as part of a plan to thwart any terrorist attack using the deadly virus, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. AFP photo SMALLPOX: Photo from the Centers for Disease COntrol and Prevention shows smallpox lesions on a person's leg. Smallpox kills about one in three unvaccinated people. The virus in the vaccine also can be transmitted to other people

On 'Good Morning America,' Charles Gibson began a conversation with his co-anchor, Diane Sawyer, by saying: 'There's a study from the World Health Organization, this is for real, that blonds are an endangered species. Women and men with blond hair, eyebrows and blue eyes, natural blonds, they say will vanish from the face of the Earth within 200 years, because it is not as strong a gene as brunets.' In London, The Sun and The Express both reported that unnamed scientists said blonds would survive longest in Scandinavia, where they are most concentrated, and expected the last true blond to hail from Finland. The British accounts were replete with the views of bleached blonds who said hairdressers would never allow blondness to become extinct, and doctors who said that rare genes would pop up to keep natural blonds from becoming an endangered species

the AIDS virus -- could harm the economic, social, political and military structure in each of the five countries, a CIA official said in releasing the declassified portions of the council's report. HIV would spark tensions over spending priorities, driving up health care costs and sharpening military manpower shortages, David F. Gordon, a CIA official and the report's author said at a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Langley. Gordon said the AIDS epidemic has the potential to generate political tensions in Nigeria, an important oil producer. He also said the AIDS epidemic could weaken Nigeria's peace-keeping role for the United Nations in Africa

[David F. Gordon] also said that the AIDS epidemic has the potential to generate political tensions in Nigeria, an important oil producer. He also said the AIDS epidemic could weaken Nigeria's peacekeeping role for the United Nations in Africa

For instance, Dr. [David F. Gordon] said, the AIDS epidemic in Russia is likely to help shape how that country emerges in the post-Soviet era. Up to one-third of prospective conscripts to Russia's military services are deemed unfit for service because of H.I.V. or chronic hepatitis from drug use, the report said. In Ethiopia, many soldiers contracted H.I.V. during the civil war in the 1980's by having contact with multiple sex partners. When the war ended in 1991, thousands of infected soldiers and prostitutes returned home, spreading H.I.V. and AIDS in their villages and towns, and the threat continues, the report said. The report is the latest in a series of papers by the National Intelligence Council on AIDS since the late 1980's. It expands on one the group issued in December 1999 on the global threat of infectious diseases, including H.I.V., on the United States. The United States has declared the global epidemic of AIDS a national security threat

For example, [David F. Gordon] said, the AIDS epidemic in Russia is likely to help shape how that country emerges in the post-Soviet era. In Russia, up to one-third of prospective military conscripts are deemed unfit for service because of HIV and chronic hepatitis from drug use, the report said. Gordon also said the AIDS epidemic has the potential to generate political tensions in Nigeria, an important oil producer. He also said the AIDS epidemic could weaken Nigeria's peacekeeping role for the United Nations in Africa. --HHS is conducting a broad management review of its AIDS spending, ordered by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson. That includes grants to outside groups and includes prevention, treatment and research. [Claude Allen] said he did not know of any other HHS-funded programs that are undergoing similar scrutiny

Last Friday, several British newspapers reported that the World Health Organization had found in a study that blonds would become extinct within 200 years, because blondness was caused by a recessive gene that was dying out. The reports were repeated Friday by anchors for the ABC News program Good Morning America, and on Saturday by CNN

Last Friday, several British newspapers reported that the World Health Organization had found in a study that blonds would become extinct within 200 years, because blondness was caused by a recessive gene that was dying out. The reports were repeated on Friday by anchors for the ABC News program ''Good Morning America,'' and on Saturday by CNN. On ''Good Morning America,'' Charles Gibson began a conversation with his co-anchor, Diane Sawyer, by saying: ''There's a study from the World Health Organization, this is for real, that blonds are an endangered species. Women and men with blond hair, eyebrows and blue eyes, natural blonds, they say will vanish from the face of the earth within 200 years, because it is not as strong a gene as brunets.'' The British accounts were replete with the views of bleached blonds who said hairdressers would never allow blondness to become extinct, and doctors who said that rare genes would pop up to keep natural blonds from becoming an endangered species

A presumed reason for the difference in death rates was that patients did not benefit from the application of several kinds of recommended therapies. Where the guidelines called for ACE inhibitor drugs to reduce the risk of death, the study found their use was 40 percent in the ''lagging'' hospitals compared to 70 percent in the ''leading'' hospitals. And where guidelines called for cholesterol lowering drugs, the use was 58 percent in lagging hospitals compared with 80 percent in leading ones. Similarly, use of aspirin was 73 percent compared with 93 percent, and efforts to stop smoking 7 percent compared with 65 percent. Some doctors do not follow guidelines because they fail to keep up with medical advances. Others fail to communicate critical information from guidelines to patients well enough. Still other doctors dismiss guidelines as cookbook medicine, partly in the belief that medicine is more an art than a science. But as the lifesaving benefits of following guidelines becomes better documented, such doctors are increasingly being challenged by the question: would they fly with a pilot who did not use a checklist before takeoff? Clearly, guidelines cannot completely replace physician judgment for many reasons. One is that many patients, particularly the elderly, are afflicted with more than a single disease, and that situation requires modification of guidelines. Another is that many patients do not fit the rigid criteria used in selecting the participants in clinical trials, and disagreement may arise as to whether the findings can be extrapolated to them. So the trials and guidelines do not answer all the questions doctors face in everyday practice

To reduce the risk of infection by the mosquito-borne virus, [Lyle Petersen] and other health officials urged pregnant women to wear protective clothing and to use insect repellents containing DEET during the mosquito season. The virus is still being transmitted in some Southern states