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The Associated Press - 24 Jul 95
Tim Snodgrass refused to serve Fred and Pat Grounds after they moved into a home for people with AIDS in late June. Snodgrass said he was afraid of cutting himself on the mail slot or becoming infected from envelopes or stamps the couple had licked.
There are no known cases of AIDS being spread through saliva, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It's his own ignorance that lost him his job," said Pat Grounds. "He did it to himself."
Snodgrass has an unlisted number and could not be reached for comment.
The 10-year carrier was suspended with pay July 14 after an AIDS education class failed to change his mind. His firing was announced Monday.
Grounds, a former coal miner and hemophiliac, caught the AIDS virus during a blood transfusion in the early 1980s and passed it on to his wife.
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