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From: claris!netcom!jfh@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jack Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: report on dentist-patient AIDS transmission case..
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I don't know if the woman has AIDS according to the CDC definition, but she
has it by the street definition - she has had candidiasis and pneumocystis
(I assume that PC was what the Examiner meant by "a kind of pneumonia
associated with AIDS").

AIDS does not usually develop within two years of infection.  That's one of
the things that is puzzling the researchers.  Seropositivity, however, is
thought to show up fairly soon (usually 3-6 months).  I think that most
people stay in the "asymptomatic positive" stage for a relatively long
time.

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