31.   Payne said he was not worried about legal liability if an athlete caught the AIDS virus from an event such as the Louganis accident.

32.   Some believe the best chance of a cure is to start treatment as soon as people know they are infected, ideally within weeks of catching the virus.

33.   Shope said the Maryland team provides convincing evidence Rosenberg caught the virus on Shelter Island but it does not prove conclusively that is where he was infected.

34.   That is why mixing blood, as occurs when needles are shared, and unsafe sex are the surest way to catch the virus.

35.   The patient, a middle-aged San Francisco man, caught the virus last fall.

36.   The study subjects, all homosexual men, suspected they had caught the virus and volunteered for the experiment between last August and February.

37.   The study subjects, all homosexual men, suspected they had caught the virus and volunteered for the tests between last August and February.

38.   They simply did not catch the virus.

39.   This is a mercifully rare condition, but it can happen if a mother catches the virus late in pregnancy and unknowingly passes it to her baby.

40.   They said it was too early to say how the patients caught the virus.