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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med
Subject: Re: AIDS transmission
Message-ID: <449@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 17:27:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 17:27:28 1985
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Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams-2e700)
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In article <1767@orca.UUCP> andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) writes:
>
>One of the medical workers who poked him/herself with a needle used to
>draw blood from an AIDS patient has come down with AIDS.
>

 This is NOT true! AIDS antibodies have been found in two health-care
 workers who accidentally stuck themselves as described above. Neither
 of these people belongs to any of the "high-risk" groups for AIDS. This
 does NOT mean that they have AIDS - it means they have been exposed to
 the virus. It is estimated that only about 10 percent of those exposed
 to the virus will actually "come down" with AIDS.
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