"Family Says 10 Babies Were Exposed to AIDS"

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"Family Says 10 Babies Were Exposed to AIDS"

United Press International (12/12/89)

Abstract: Gainesville, Fla.--A Central Florida couple has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Shands Hospital at the University of Florida, alleging their daughter was one of 10 premature babies given HIV-infected blood in 1983. The suit also says the hospital attempted to cover up the matter until June 1989. Blood tests have confirmed that the couple's 6-year-old daughter carries HIV. The couple, identified as Jane and John Doe, claim they offered to donate their own blood out of concern for HIV infection when their daughter was born prematurely in 1983. They claim a doctor assured them, however, that the baby would receive "allegedly special neonatal blood" that could not be infected with HIV. The suit says the physician knew or should have known that there were no available tests to detect HIV available at the time. Shands did not tell the Does until last June that their daughter was one of 10 babies potentially exposed to HIV through blood transfusions.

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