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From: gmk@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: AIDS transmission
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 21:39:00 EDT
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Enough! The following quote is from "The Epidemiology of AIDS:
Current Status and Future Prospects" by J.W. Curran, et al in
the 27 September 1985 issue of _Science_:

	Seriologic testing for HTLV-III/LAV has been completed
	for 105 [of 512 health care workers in a study], 82 per
	cent of whom had parenteral exposure from needlesticks
	or cuts from sharp instruments. None of the 105 participants
	demonstrated seroconversion to HTLV-III/LAV after an average
	8-month follow-up....A recent report, however, describes
	a nurse in England who developed confirmed HTLV-III/LAV
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	antibody following a needlestick injury [emphasis added]
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	and exposure to the blood of an AIDS patient. This
	seroconversion occurred 27 to 45 days after exposure and
	was accompanied by lymphadenopathy and fever, consistent
	with the acute symptoms described with HTLV-III/LAV.

The reference cited by the authors for this "recent report" is
(unfortunately)
	Anonymous, _Lancet_, vol. 1984-I, p. 1376, (1984).