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Study Says Household Items Do Not Pose a Risk of AIDS

The New York Times - October 1, 1985

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 1- The risk of transmitting acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, from daily contact in the home apparently is nonexistent, even when people share toothbrushes, razors and other household items with victims of the disease, a new study says.

Dr. Martha F. Rogers of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, a Federal agency, said Monday that the latest work was one of several studies that reached essentially the same conclusion but acknowledged that "there are no guarantees."


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