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From: ddw@cornell.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: re: info-AIDS request
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 16:20:23 EDT
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From: ddw (David Wright)
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Yee hah!  Into the fray!  Duff Browne is flaming about AIDS and the risks
his wife may or may not be taking as a nurse exposed to AIDS victims.

    	"It IS known, however, that no health care or laboratory workers
    	that have come in contact with AIDS patients have ever gotten
    	it unless they were already in a high risk group..."
    
    Bull shit!  My wife works in the operating room here, and if
    she should happen to get *the blood* from a person with AIDS
    on her, she would most probably contract AIDS herself.  

Oh, yeah?  What's YOUR source for this statement?  The information I've
seen says that the disease may be transmittable by blood, but only in
the transfusive sense.  It may be that contact by blood on your skin is
also dangerous, but to say this would "most probably" transmit AIDS is
simply preposterous.  I don't know and neither do you and neither does
anyone else.
  
    ANY health maintenance personnel who come in contact with an AIDS
    victim are at risk.  As Larry said, let's have some knowledgeable
    people comment on the subject.  I would prefer not to have
    rumors, but hard facts, and the above is about the only hard fact
    I have. Others?

I think you still need a first one, myself.

                         David Wright

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