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Oregon Mom Forced to Treat Baby for HIV Kathleen Tyson wants desperately to

游客2024-12-22  1
问题   Oregon Mom Forced to Treat Baby for HIV
  Kathleen Tyson wants desperately to breast feed her baby, But the state of Oregon says it will take the baby from her if she does. The government threatened the action after Tyson tested positive for HIV, the virus the vast majority of medical researchers say causes AIDS.
  For now, at least, she gives the infant a cow’s milk formula. And until a few weeks ago, she reluctantly gave him a state ordered medically prescribed six-week course of the powerful AIDS drug AZT. She faces a court date in April to try to regain total freedom in how she cares for her son, including the right to breastfeed.
Kathleen Tyson says, "There is evidence that there is something in breast milk that inhibits the binding of HIV to receptor cells in the infant. So we’re starting to get an idea that maybe it’s not so bad as everybody thinks."
  Tyson and her husband David are at odds with the medical establishment and the medical research showing HIV causes aids. Nor is the couple convinced by studies that show HIV can be transmitted by breast milk. What’s more, the Tysons say they have no idea why Kathleen tested positive. The two say they’ve had a monogamous relationship for eleven years, never used I-V drugs, or had blood transfusions, and that both David and the baby tested negative. Are they in denial about the reality of AIDS?
  "Since I’m one who takes care of children with HIV and have watched children die of AIDS, the idea that someone would allow a preventable disease to be transmitted like that, absolutely breaks my heart," says Dr. Paul Lewis.
  David Tyson answers that charge, "A lot of people say that; I think the medical establishment is in denial about the evidence that indicates their theory is a dud. They’ve been working on this for 16 years now, and they’ve put more resources into this than any other issue that we’ve had. And they aren’t any closer to any mechanism of pathogenicity than they were when they started."
  Kathleen Tyson says, "I think we weighed the issue. I think we’ve looked at a lot of material. And I think that we’re rational, responsible people. And there are just enough things, for me, that don’t make sense, that I have to question it."
  The Tysons find support on an Internet site which claims that a growing number of bio-medical scientists say the AIDS virus is harmless and not sexually transmitted, Site authors claim it’s the anti-viral medications like AZT that kill.
  David Tyson says of the web site, "... and these have a number of quotes by a number of prominent people in the biomedical field about their doubts about this theory."
  The site helped the Tysous reach David Rasnick, a visiting scientist in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Rasnick is president of a group opposed to prevailing theories on the cause of AIDS. In an e-mail, Rasnick told the Tyanus to refuse AZT for their infant son.
  David Rasnick of the group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis, "We’re interfering with healthy mothers and healthy children to breast feed; we’re giving these kids poisonous drugs in the chance they might develop anti-bodies to HIV."
  Rasnick’s advice deeply troubles Dr. Paul Lewis, an Oregon children’s infectious diseases specialist. He says, "Since I’m one who takes care of children with HIV and have watched children die of AIDS, the idea that someone would allow a preventable disease to be transmitted like that, absolutely breaks my heart."
  Lewis says that as many as one baby in four born to an infected mother, will be infected with HIV. He says the number nearly doubles, to four out of ten, if an infected mother breast-feeds. Lewis says widely accepted research shows when the infant is not breast fed and AZT treatment is given, such infectious can be reduced to as few as one or two in a hundred. Why do the Tysons insist on breast feeding and talking a chance with what the medical community calls an unreasonable position in 1999?
  David Tyson says, "Well, because we have to take responsibility for our health upon ourselves and not rely upon an exterior institution."
  Scientists in the mainstream of AIDS research dismiss as renegade researchers those who argue against HIV as the cause of AIDS. The few scientists who do challenge the HW/AIDS connection look to families like the Tysons to force a fresh debate.
  The Tysons, for their part, hope the challenge will help them win the right to breast feed their baby.  [br] Mrs. Tyson believes that breast milk prevents HIV from connecting to ______.
选项 A、infant receptor cells
B、AIDS
C、genetic cells
D、cancerous cells
答案 A
解析 本题为细节题。文章第三段引用了Tyson太太的一段话：“There is evidence that there is something in breast milk that inhibits the binding of HIV to receptor cells in the infant，So we’re starting to get an idea that maybe it’s not so bad as everybody thinks.”意为“有研究表明，母乳中有某种物质可以阻断婴儿的接收细胞与HIV之间的联系”，故选A。
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