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The vaccine Dr. [Jonas Salk] envisions would be given to healthy virus carriers and to those who have only mild symptoms. If, in addition to protecting their health, the vaccine also reduced their ability to spread the virus, it could have ''a greater and more rapid impact'' on the AIDS epidemic than any conventional immunization against the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Dr. Salk reported in today's issue of the British journal Nature. Another researcher, Dr. Daniel Zagury of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, has already tested a different form of immunization on 10 people in Zaire who were infected with the AIDS virus without suffering any adverse effects. His aim is to block the spread of the AIDS virus within an infected person's body by removing the patient's own white blood cells, treating them in the laboratory, and then injecting them back into the patient. Dr. Salk hopes that researchers can find substances that would increase production of protective factors by stimulating the immune system of people infected with the AIDS virus, thus ''exaggerating'' the protective effect produced when the AIDS virus first infects a person

The two vaccines are believed to be effective in a brief period after exposure to the viruses, before they have multiplied or stimulated natural immune defenses. With the AIDS virus, in contrast, [Jonas Salk]'s proposed approach would usually be applied after natural antibodies had formed but before the major spread of the virus in the body. The vaccine Salk envisions would be given to healthy carriers of the virus and to those who have only mild symptoms. If, in addition to protecting their health, the vaccine also reduced their ability to spread the virus, it could have 'a greater and more rapid impact' on the AIDS epidemic than any conventional immunization against the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Salk reports in today's issue of the British journal Nature

* Where will prisoners infected with the AIDS virus be cared for? Will such inmates be segregated despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that the AIDS virus cannot be spread by casual person-to-person contact but rather through sexual intercourse and transfusions of blood and blood products? If infected prisoners are segregated, will the facilities be in one Federal prison or in each prison? * Who will pay for the costs of caring for individuals who become infected with the AIDS virus while in prison and who do not develop the disease until after they have served their terms? Unless periodic testing is done, some people who were infected before they entered prison might not be detected under the [Reagan] plan, because it can take up to four months for the formation of the antibodies which signal the presence of the AIDS virus. * What will be the fate of illegal aliens who apply for legal status under the new immigration law and who are found to have AIDS? #87,000 Have Applied This question arises because more than 87,000 illegal aliens have already applied for legal status under the new law and all have had medical examinations. The AIDS blood test was not required of them. The law clearly says that information that is submitted in connection with amnesty is to be kept confidential. For those who have not had the AIDS blood test, it is not known whether they will have to be re-examined

''The view that doctors may refuse care to patients appears to undermine the tacit social contract that has long existed between physicians and their communities,'' Dr. R. Nathan Link, who headed the team doing the study, told the AIDS conference. ''Whether these views reflect trends that will compromise the level of medical care that will be available to AIDS patients remains undetermined.'' The differences in attitudes made a difference in extra time spent with AIDS patients: More male than female physicians tended to avoid entering an AIDS patient's room when such visits were not medically essential. In the New York study, the 258 doctors surveyed were being training in internal medicine and pediatrics. Those in internal medicine cared for an average of 39 AIDS patients, or 15 percent of all their patients. The pediatricians averaged 10 AIDS patients, or 5 percent of their total cases. Only two physicians in the study had never cared for any AIDS patient

''Kissing has not been documented to pose a risk'' of spreading the AIDS virus, a group of experts from AIDS centers throughout the world said in a statement the organization issued today. The experts met over the weekend to review the scientific data presented at the Third International Conference on AIDS here last week. 'Wet' Kissing May Pose Threat The experts also said in the W.H.O. statement that ''while unproven, some theoretical risk from vigorous 'wet' kissing (deep kissing or tongue kissing) may exist.'' The statement on kissing by W.H.O., a specialized United Nations agency, its first on the subject. It was made ''because we are constantly besieged with questions about kissing,'' Dr. Jonathan Mann, who heads the organization's AIDS program, said in an interview

Dr. [Otis R. Bowen] said that the chief aim of the survey would be ''to find out the total extent of the AIDS problem'' and ''the distribution of the virus.'' Government officials have estimated that 1.5 million Americans are infected with the AIDS virus. Need for Survey Explained Dr. [June Osborn] contrasted the mood of this meeting with that of the ''gloom that was hard to dispel despite the numerous signal advances reported'' at last year's meeting in Paris and the ''shock at the emerging magnitude'' of the AIDS problem expressed at the first meeting in Atlanta in 1985, when about 2,000 scientists and public health workers attended. Dr. Bowen also drew cheers today when he said AIDS ''is not a them-and-us thing.'' He said, ''This is truly just an us thing.''

WASHINGTON - The federal government announced Friday that it would take random blood samples from about 45,000 people around the country as part of a national survey to determine the number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus. Participation is to be voluntary and anonymous. Dr. Otis R. Bowen, the secretary of Health and Human Services, told participants at a conference on AIDS that the government also planned to begin a campaign to educate the public about ways to prevent acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Bowen, who spoke at the end of the Third International Conference on AIDS, ignored the demonstrators until he had finished his prepared speech. Then, to applause, he added: ``I really don't object to your protesting my remarks. ... I shall not turn my back on the problem. I shall not turn my back on AIDS or the people who have it. We're going to see it through to the ultimate success, with the proper protection of civil rights and human dignity.``

Dr. B. Frank Polk, an AIDS epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, said in an interview here that ''a number of scientific leaders in AIDS have overstated the risk in the absence of data.'' Dr. [Harold W. Jaffe] said, ''Those who are suggesting that we are going to see an explosive spread of the virus into the heterosexual population have to explain why this is not happening.'' Dr. Jaffe said Federal health officials ''have not looked for such clusters.'' Rather, he said, that in the absence of national surveys, they have assessed the spread of the AIDS virus among heterosexual Americans from two lines of research

Although much more effort is being devoted to the problem of drug abuse than was the case a few years ago, ''we still need to be doing 10 times more than we are doing,'' Dr. Des Jarlais said. Proposals to Curb AIDS * Those who decline to stop using intravenous drugs would be advised how to give themselves ''AIDS-safe injections'' and how to avoid sexual behavior that puts them at risk of spreading the virus. Intravenous drug users are the second largest group of AIDS victims in United States. Seventeen percent of the more than 36,000 cases in this country have involved heterosexual intravenous drug users. Eight percent of American AIDS victims are homosexual or bisexual men who have also used intravenous drugs. People who are black or of Hispanic origin have been disproportionately afflicted by drug-related AIDS. The percentage of intravenous drug users has remained steady as the case count has risen in recent years

''We are witnessing a rising wave of stigmatization: against Westerners in Asia, against Africans in Europe, of homosexuals, of prostitutes, of hemophiliacs, of recipients of blood transfusions,'' the official, Dr. Jonathan Mann, told the Third International Conference on AIDS. He said fears of AIDS had become ''a direct threat to free travel between countries'' and to international exchange and communication. Dr. S. I. Okware, who heads the AIDS control program in Uganda, called on the world to help Africa ''catch up with'' the virus that causes AIDS. A special concern, Dr. [James Curran] said, is the danger of a major increase in AIDS among babies born to women who carry the AIDS virus. Although ''the United States is relatively spared the pediatric AIDS epidemic compared to Africa,'' Dr. Curran said, the potential for more pediatric cases to develop in this country has ''alarming implications.''