A.I.D.S. report
Sir, —On May 1 “The Press” ran a report of an A.I.D.S. statement by Dr Lorraine Day, chief orthopaedic surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital. This hospital is one of the world’s largest A.I.D.S. treatment centres and, therefore, must be a fruitful situation for observation of the disease and its transmission. Dr Day’s statement should be taken seriously and to be prudent in assessing risks seems selfevident. Mr Warren Lindberg, of the New Zealand A.I.D.S. Foundation, has leapt into the fray with disparaging comments. What are his qualifications? A New Zealand Health Department pamphlet on A.I.D.S. says, in part: “... there is still much we don’t know.” Medical misjudgment of risks is not unknown; remember thalidomide? Precisely because we do not know the full story, we should heed warnings, not seek to silence them. — Yours, etc.,
RUTH THORNE. May 3,1989.
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