Subject: What's News -- World-Wide Date: Published: 6/21/91 (21 lines) Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. What's News -- World-Wide --- [110 lines irrelevant to AIDS have been omitted. -- sysop] The AIDS epidemic must be treated as "a world-wide, lethal, venereal disease," U. S. researcher William Haseltine told a conference in Florence. While the illness can be transmitted by infected blood and shared needles, Haseltine said it is important to recognize that AIDS is mainly a heterosexual disease. [This article is made available here by Dow Jones Co. for the personal and non-commercial use of callers to this bbs, in the hope that it will be of some help to those who are suffering from the disease and others who are seeking to help them.]