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From: steph@graffiti.UUCP (stephanie da silva)
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Subject: Re: AIDS transmission
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 21:00:16 EDT
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> > Sorry to confuse things even more, but there has been ONE documented case
> > of a "health care professional" (to use the standard buzzword) who
> > contracted AIDS by sticking him/herself with a needle used to draw blood
> > 
> 
> 	That's a nice solid reference if I've ever heard one.  Care to clue
> the rest of in on where you read that?  You have to document it, not just
> say it's documented.
> -- 

I read that in an issue of Time magazine a few weeks ago. If I remember
right, it was a nurse in England who accidentally pricked herself with
a contaminated needle.

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