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Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - September 3, 2003
Sobering: Two unusual cases of HIV transmission within two Australian families are reported in the latest issue of AIDS.
The first case involves a 16-year-old girl and her 18-year-old sister. The younger sister became aware of her HIV-infection after donating blood in 1999. She had never had sex, nor any other risk-factor for acquiring HIV. The elder sister was found to be HIV-positive. The only risk factor was their occasional sharing of a razor.
The second case involves a 55-year-old woman and her son in his early thirties. The mother had been married for 25 years and reported no sexual partners other than her husband, who was HIV-negative. The son reported unprotected sex during a spell in Thailand. He moved home for six months and during that time had active psoriasis. The only risk factor for the mother appeared to be applying topical creme to her son's psoriasis lesions, which were reported to be dry and did not bleed.
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