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From: mlight@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Mike_Light)
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Subject: Re: AIDS in Rumania
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Date: 9 Feb 90 17:02:42 GMT
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>I recently saw a piece on ABC news which stated that from
>one-third to one-half of all sick hospitalized infants in Bucharest
>have AIDS. One hospital alone currently has 53 infected infants.
> [...]
>I assume the infants were infected in utero. What is the primary source
>of maternal infection?

There was some statement that it is common practice to give newborns
blood transfusions, and it was the blood banks that were infected,
not the mothers.

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