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<text id=90TT2444>
<title>
Sep. 17, 1990: American Notes:Georgia
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 55
American Notes
GEORGIA
All Hype, No Hope
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<p> When word spread last June that Atlanta surgeon William
Logan Jr. and pathologist Kenneth Alonso had found a promising
new treatment for AIDS patients, hopes soared, lights flashed,
and a media circus rolled into town. TV cameras descended on
the operating room to record the miraculous recovery of a
patient with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, whom the doctors
had treated by heating his blood to kill the AIDS virus.
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<p> Last week the hope came crashing to the ground. After
studying the cases, federal investigators declared the
treatment useless and recommended against further human
experimentation. They attributed one patient's remarkable
recovery to misdiagnosis: he did not have Kaposi's sarcoma to
begin with. Dr. Alonso called the report "absurd," and plans to
continue his study, possibly in Latin America or Europe.
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