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'The guy is not sick,' Dr. [Burton J. Lee] said this week in an interview with this reporter, who is a physician. Mr. [Bush] is understandably under stress, he said, 'taking a tremendous beating in the press' during the campaign, 'concerned from time to time' but handling the tension 'amazingly well.' Dr. Lee trained as a specialist in internal medicine and cancer and practiced at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan for many years before moving on to the White House with Mr. Bush. Dr. Lee's specialties would seem appropriate for Mr. Bush's care, since heart disease and cancer are the two leading causes of death for men the President's age. In an interview earlier this year, Dr. Lee said he had learned of a syndrome, described about a decade ago by the late Dr. Norman Geschwind in Boston. It includes left-handedness, an auto-immune disorder like [Graves]' disease and certain other problems. Some people with the syndrome, which is not treatable, are dyslexic, and Dr. Lee speculated that Mr. Bush's well-known problems with syntax might be linked somehow to the other conditions. Mr. Bush is left-handed

For the first time in the history of the World Health Organization, the incumbent director general has been challenged for the job by another WHO official. Director General Hiroshi Nakajima is being challenged by Mohammed Abdelmoumeme, whom Nakajima dismissed after Abdelmoumene announced his candidacy

A national surveillance system has been set up by federal health officials to track cases of an AIDS-like illness for people who show no evidence of infection with the HIV virus. A total of 14 patients have been found to have the mysterious illness

[Ludwik Gross]' caution adds an unusual twist to the bizarre tale of mysterious AIDS-like cases recounted last month at an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam. American and European scientists spoke about a few dozen cases of an AIDS-like illness among individuals who showed no evidence of infection with HIV-1 or HIV-2. [Sudhir Gupta] reported that he had detected a virus unlike any of the known human retroviruses in a 66-year-old woman with an AIDS-like illness. Her only apparent risk factor was a blood transfusion she received in 1949 or 1950. Gupta said he also had found the virus in the woman's 38-year-old daughter. Gupta said he has not said the virus is new or linked to AIDS. He said he did not know how the virus was transmitted, although in the paper he raised the possibility of transmission through blood transfusions

[Ludwik Gross]' caution adds an unusual twist to the bizarre tale of mysterious AIDS-like cases that was recounted last month at an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam. There American and European scientists spoke about a few dozen cases of an AIDS-like illness among individuals who showed no evidence of infection with HIV-1 or HIV-2. Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French researcher who played crucial roles in the discovery of the two viruses that cause AIDS, HIV-1 and HIV-2, said in an interview at the Pasteur Institute here that he shares Gross' concern and doubts. [Sudhir Gupta] reported that he had detected a virus unlike any of the known human retroviruses in a 66-year-old woman with an AIDS-like illness. Her only apparent risk factor was a blood transfusion she received in 1949 or 1950. Gupta said he had also found the virus in the woman's 38-year-old, healthy daughter

[Ludwik Gross]' caution adds an unusual twist to the tale of mysterious AIDS-like cases that was recounted last month at an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam. There American and European scientists spoke about a few dozen cases of an AIDS-like illness among individuals who showed no evidence of infection with HIV-1 or HIV-2. Gross said he decided to introduce [Sudhir Gupta]'s paper to the proceedings after the findings were reviewed by two independent researchers. Although the reviewers expressed reservations about Gupta's technique and scientific controls, they recommended publication because they found the findings fascinating. Gupta reported that he had detected a virus unlike any of the known human retroviruses in a 66-year-old woman with an AIDS-like illness. Her only apparent risk factor was a blood transfusion she received in 1949 or 1950. Gupta said he had also found the virus in the woman's 38-year-old, healthy daughter

[Ludwik Gross], 88, said that he ''wanted to brake the scare'' that resulted from publicity about the report and allay ''unwarranted conclusions'' that led the public to fear that an AIDS-like virus is on the loose. Gross' caution adds an unusual twist to the bizarre tale of mysterious AIDS-like cases that was recounted last month at an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Sudhir Gupta] said he detected a virus unlike any known human retroviruses in a 66-year-old woman with an AIDS-like illness. Her only apparent risk factor was a blood transfusion she received in 1949 or 1950

A report by Sudhir Gupta citing a possible new HIV-like virus, which is being published in the Aug 1992 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has stirred public fear of an unsafe blood supply, is being questioned by two scientists, Ludwik Gross, who sponsored Gupta's report, and Luc Montagnier, head of France's Pasteur Institute

Dr. [Ludwik Gross]' caution adds an unusual twist to the bizarre tale of AIDS-like cases that was recounted last month at an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where U.S. and European scientists spoke about a few dozen cases of an AIDS-like illness among people who showed no evidence of infection with HIV-1 or HIV-2. Dr. [Sudhir Gupta] reported that he had detected a virus unlike any of the known human retroviruses in a 66-year-old woman with an AIDS-like illness. Her only apparent risk factor was a blood transfusion she received in 1949 or 1950. Dr. Gupta said he had also found the virus in the woman's healthy 38-year-old daughter. Dr. Gupta insisted in an interview that he has not said that the virus is new or linked to AIDS. He said he did not know how the virus was transmitted

The cases involve an AIDS-like illness without evidence of infection with H.I.V., the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. The alarm centers on a threat to the nation's blood supply from what may be a new AIDS-like virus and alarm over how such a virus might spread. Dr. James Curran, the C.D.C.'s leading AIDS expert, followed, adding the agency's six cases. He asked aloud whether the C.D.C. should have published them earlier in its widely read weekly report, and he also put out a call for doctors to report additional cases. Participants shouted, 'Yes!' because earlier reporting could have speeded up the recognition and investigation of the problem. 'It is so easy to slip into this AIDS mentality because we are talking about it at an AIDS conference and we have AIDS researchers doing the work,' Dr. Curran said, adding, 'This is not AIDS caused by something else.'