MEDICAL UPDATE: Health Care Workers and HIV Transmission

MEDICAL UPDATE: Health Care Workers and HIV Transmission

Being Alive Newsletter, Being Alive/Los Angeles - August 1993
Mark Katz, MD and reported by Jim Stoecker

By the end of 1992, there were only 33 documented cases in the US in which health care workers had been infected on the job. Of these cases, most were nurses or laboratory technicians. Only four physicians had occupationally-acquired HIV. In addition to the 33 documented cases, another 69 cases among health care workers were considered possibly acquired on the job.

On the other hand, there is only one documented case where a health care worker transmitted HIV to a patient. This is, of course, the infamous Florida dentist; six cases have now been diagnosed among his patients.
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