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From: hga@mit-eddie.UUCP (Harold Ancell)
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Subject: Re: AIDS transmission
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 23:13:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 23:13:09 1985
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For up to date (30 Aug 85) information on AIDS in a reasonably avaliable
source, people should read "The Epidemiology of AIDS: Current Status and
Future Prospects" by J.M. Curran et al., in the 27 Sept 85 issue of
_Science_.  The authors are with the Centers for Disease Control, and
the article seems to cover the subject very well; it includes ~ 47
references.

On the subject of cases of AIDS in the U.S. among health care workers
the authors say that as of 24 May 85, 371 (3.5%) of reported AIDS case
were in health care workers.  All but 31 (8.4%) belonged to know risk
groups.  Of these cases "no specific occupational exposures could be
documented."  The nurse in England who got stuck and exposed to the
blood of an AIDS patient developed HTLV-III/LAV antibody 27 to 45 days
after exposure, and this "was accompanied by lymphadenopathy and fever,
consistant with the acute symptoms described with HTLV-III/LAV."  The
article describes studies of medical personal exposed to blood and other
body fluids of AIDS patients, none of whom developed antibodies, and
says the risk appears to be small.

					- Harold