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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: AIDS transmission
Message-ID: <2298@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 17:23:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 17:23:57 1985
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In article <916@utcs.uucp> flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>Okay now.  It appears quite definite from all these postings here that that
>case with that nurse resulted not from a 'needle-stick' but from an
>accidental injection of a SUBSTANTIAL amount of ARTERIAL blood, being that
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ?*
>no one has said anything which directly contradicts this.  Would someone
>care to either find a reference which denies this, or finally admit that
>simple needle-sticks are not sufficient to transmit aids.

* I can understand accidental needle-sticks -- I've cut and poked myself
enough to realize that even professionals trained to handle sharp
instruments will have accidents with them. However, can someone explain
how THIS happened? The only scenario I can come up with is that someone
carrying a hypo full of blood fell down, and managed both to stick
themselves in falling and also depress the plunger to inject themselves,
rather than breaking off the needle or smashing the hypo (both of which
seem more likely). Anybody have any detailed explanation?

Will Martin

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