The Nation - News from Oct. 4, 1985
New Jersey ordered two public schools to admit a kindergartner with AIDS and a boy whose sister suffers from AIDS-related complex. “With AIDS, we have the most preventable adult disease the medical world has ever seen,” State Commissioner of Health J. Richard Goldstein said in announcing the decision. “As for children, there is absolutely not one single shred of evidence that infected children transmit the disease.”
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