According to the Palm Beach Post, doctors are amazed that Tony Huesman from Ohio is still alive 28 years after his heart transplant. His heart had been damaged by a pneumonia virus, which had caused his heart to enlarge by four times its normal size and the walls of the heart to stretch and become "paper thin. "When Huesman received the transplanted heart in 1978 at Stanford University, it was one of the only United States' (U. S. ') transplant centers doing this type of surgery. Most other heart surgeons and locations had abandoned the transplantation of hearts, because most patients were not surviving very long after surgery.

Spanish police officers congregated to watch a video presentation on promotion methods, were instead shown a clipping from hard-core pornographic film, authorities said Tuesday. Computer technicians blamed the glitch on a virus that got activated as the video was turned on. The incident happened Monday when nearly 120 Madrid city police officers gathered at an auditorium to see the video on operations at an academy where they are to study, the Madrid regional justice and interior ministry said.

India's Border Guarding Force (BGF), generally called Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), has received an intelligence report that Pakistan's Inter-State Intelligence (ISI) is planning to spread AIDS virus among the Indian army personnel. Indian military officials said that ISI would take the help of some militant organization for the implementation its plan. They also asked army personnel and members of para-military forces to frustrate the ISI plan by practising safe sex.

Lisbon, Portugal (AHN)-An illness that medical officials are calling the "Strawberries with Sugar Virus" is sweeping Portuguese schools as children complain of symptoms similar to those suffered by characters in a television soap opera.

Canadian police and health officials searched on Tuesday for a thief who made off with vials of HIV-contaminated blood plasma from a Vancouver hospital. The thief pried open a locked freezer at a laboratory at St. Paul's Hospital during the weekend and removed the 19 vials that were marked with the lettering "HIV VL" and labeled with the patients' names, Reuters reported.