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Subject: Re: Re: info-AIDS request - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 04:02:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 04:02:17 1983
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fortune!lowry    Aug 31 01:01:00 1983

***** fortune:net.flame / iedl02!ie /  9:55 am  Aug 15, 1983
References: decwrl.2823

	"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.  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?

Duff Browne
GE-IEDL
Charlottesville, Va.
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Come on, lets respond to the assertion with evidence, not negation.  
The quote you "bullshitted" asserted that it is known that no health
worker in contact with AIDS patients ever got the disease except
those already in a high risk group.  To refute this, you should
produce the name of some laboratory worker who contacted AIDS 
who is not in a high risk group.  Instead you merely stated that
were your wife to come in contact with the blood of a patient,
she would *probably* get the disease, and that those in contact
with AIDS victims are "at risk".  This in no way means that anyone
has ever gotten the disease that way.