Aids Epidemic

2. AIDS Epidemic 

"The mailman brings me unsolicited mail, I mean, the postage stamp could have been licked by someone with AIDS. Right" 

"New report on AIDS..." - quotes from Talk Radio 
New York Times 
November 29, 1987 

By HILARY STOUT 
More than 40 percent of American adults are concerned that they will contract AIDS, and fear of having the deadly disease is prompting many people to change their sexual behavior and take other precautions, the latest Gallup poll indicates. 
An overwhelming number of Americans, 68 percent, believe AIDS is the nation's most serious health problem; 14 percent name cancer and 7 percent heart disease, according to the poll. 
Twenty percent of American adults are "very concerned" that acquired immune deficiency syndrome will strike them personally, and 22 percent are "a little concerned" that they will contract the disease, the poll found. 
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/aids/112987sci-aids-2.html