"Health Care Workers With AIDS"

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"Health Care Workers With AIDS"

Journal of the American Medical Association (12/25/91) Vol. 266, No. 24, P. 3459
Chamberland, Mary E. et al.

Abstract: The majority of health-care workers with AIDS have acquired HIV by an nonoccupational role, write Mary E. Chamberland, MD, et al. of the Centers for Disease Control. AIDS surveillance is conducted among health care workers to evaluate the risk of HIV infection after exposure to the blood or body fluids of an HIV-positive patient, and cross-sectional seroprevalence surveys, and individual case reports provide a whole picture of the status of occupationally acquired HIV infection. Health care workers who do not report a nonoccupational risk for HIV infection are termed "undetermined risk cases" and are investigated by health departments using a standard protocol. Through June 1990, there were 5,425 AIDS cases reported among health-care workers in the U.S. Three of them developed AIDS after an occupational exposure to HIV-tainted blood. In general, health-care workers were more inclined than non-health-care workers with AIDS to have an undetermined risk for HIV infection, the researchers conclude.

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