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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: More on AIDS and Health Workers
Message-ID: <775@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 17:21:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 17:21:40 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1026@decwrl.UUCP> mason@pneuma.DEC (ANDREA 223-4864 PK03-2/H31 POLE 15F) writes:
>Reprinted from the Boston Globe (Thursday, 10/17/85)
>
>"STUDY SAYS SURGEON WITH AIDS INFECTED NO ONE"
>Associated Press
>
>A Florida surgeon with acquired immune deficiency syndrome operated on 
>hundreds of patients without passing on the disease, supporting the 
>belief that AIDS-infected health workers can safely treat patients, a 
>study says.

Consider  how  a  surgeon  prepares  for  surgery.   Thorough  scrub   with
disinfectant  soap,  sterile  cap,  gown,  mask,  gloves.  How many "health
workers" go through such a procedure prior  to  seeing  each  patient?  How
many occupations come under the heading "health worker"?

>Sacks' report, published as a letter in today's edition of the New 
>England Journal of Medicine, said that theoretically the disease could 
>be transmitted if an infected health care worker accidently bled into 
>a patient's open wound.  

Probably true.  I think we can reasonably assume the surgeon  didn't  bleed
into any of his patients.

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