ON EL SALVADOR Jenny Pearce (author of 'Under the Eagle) El Salvador Solidarity Campaign
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 13 →
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outbreak of the disease in the Western hemisphere. • It was eradicated by slaughtering all the pigs (500,000) on Cuba, but did it manage to spread across the 100 km stretch of sea to Haiti and remain dormant for a few years, before breaking out again? ASF may well have spread back to Cuba this way, as there was another outbreak there in 1979 after the Haitian outbreak.
US blood
To prevent the spread of AIDS, there have already been calls for a ban on US exports of blood products.
The British government was warned of the danger of contaminated products from the US in 1981 after 10 children had caught hepatitis, but refused to do anything on grounds of cost. There have also been calls for restrictions on gays giving blood.
It may be a good idea to restrict blood donations from high risk groups in the US, but. it would be ironic if the Moral Majority and their allies were allowed to scapegoat gays for spreading something that may well be the fault of their beloved CIA!
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