The Nation - News from Aug. 7, 1985
The federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta confirmed that patients who received blood-derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the Bahamas were exposed to AIDS virus. The patients at the Immunology Researching Center Ltd., which has been closed, also were exposed to hepatitis, the CDC said. The Associated Press reported last month that possibly 1,000 of the clinic’s patients may have been exposed to the AIDS virus. The CDC said no AIDS cases have been reported thus far as a consequence of treatment at the clinic, but that it has documented hepatitis in two clinic patients with no history of susceptibility to hepatitis.
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