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"Infant's HIV Infection Attributed to Patient to Patient Contact"
AIDS Alert (10/94) Vol. 9, No. 10, P. 133
The New York City Department of Health and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention report that patient-to-patient
transmission resulting from an unidentified breakdown in
universal precautions at a New York City hospital was the cause
of an 11-month-old boy's infection with HIV in 1993. HIVªantibody
testing was performed when the boy was hospitalized for
Pneumocystis carinii, a complication of AIDS. Officials reached
the conclusion of patient©to©patient transmission because two
other HIV©positive patients were in the pediatric isolation unit
undergoing similar procedures to the infant's©©including blood
draws, IV medications, and eye washes. There were 46 one©hour
periods in which the same health care workers performed
procedures on both the baby and one of the other patients. Of
the 32 health care workers who treated the patients, ÃÃonly nine
agreed to be tested for HIVÄÄ ©© all were found negative. Mary E.
Chamberland, chief of the HIV infections branch of the CDC's
hospital infections program, said that universal precautions ©ªused
effectively on patients in a similar unit ©© should have
prevented HIV transmission whether any of the patients were
infected or not.
THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE THE HOMOSEXUALS HAD A LAW PASSED
THAT AN AIDS INFECTED PERSON DID NOT HAVE TO DISCLOSE THEIR INFECTION.
IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW FOR A DOCTOR TO ASK THE PATIENT IF THEY HAD
THE DISEASE.
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