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Abstract: Mandatory HIV testing for health-care workers is the only way to prevent innocent people like Kimberly Bergalis from being infected, writes Brooke A. Beyer Jr. in a letter to the Washington Post. In Charles Krauthammer s Oct. 4 column Who is Spreading AIDS? Beyer charges that Krauthammer misses the point by taking ...
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Abstract: Despite the case of Kimberly Bergalis, who contracted HIV from her dentist, there will be no hurry to create a new Centers for Disease Control category on classifying AIDS cases called treated by an HIV-infected health-care worker, write the editors of the Washington Times. Although education on the transmission of ...
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Abstract: AEGIS, AIDS Daily Summary, HIV, AIDS, HIV infection, opportunistic infections. var gaJsHost = (https: = document.location.protocol) ? "https:ssl. : "http:www. document.write(unescape(3Cscript src= + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type=text/javascript'3E%3C/script%3E"ion" CONTENT=Barbara Webb ...
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Abstract: A man who contracted HIV infection from his Florida dentist has died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of 33. The man, Richard Driskill, died of pancreatic failure on Saturday, according to his lawyer, Robert Montgomery. Driskill was one of six patients known to be infected by dentist Dr. David Acer, who died of AI ...
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Abstract: Despite the death of Kimberly Bergalis--the young Florida woman who contracted HIV from her dentist--doctors say they are much more at risk for becoming infected with HIV from their patients than vice versa. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published three studies that back the doctors c ...
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Abstract: Fort Pierce, Fla.--A year after Kimberly Bergalis died of AIDS, her parents claim they are frustrated and angry that their daughter s death has not led to mandatory HIV testing of health-care workers. George Bergalis, Kimberly s father, said, The anger probably is more directed at the frustration of seeing these, an ...
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Abstract: Port St. Lucie, Fla.--The family of Kimberly Bergalis, the young woman who died of AIDS last year after contracting HIV from a dentist, has initiated an AIDS awareness advertising campaign. However, the campaign is not without objections from physicians involved in educating the public about the disease. The Bergali ...
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Abstract: Many of those campaigning for AIDS-related causes see a dichotomy in the American people s view of AIDS. While gay men and drug users are seen as deserving of the disease, others, such as Kimberly Bergalis, are seen as innocent victims of the irresponsibility of these homosexuals and drug addicts. Magic Johnson, who ...
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Abstract: Kimberly Bergalis, who contracted HIV from her dentist, died of AIDS Sunday at age 23. She was the first reported case of doctor-to-patient transmission of HIV, and her case stirred a national debate of whether health-care workers should be tested for HIV because she claimed she was a virgin and never used IV drugs. ...
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Abstract: The best education campaign would be for all HIV-infected individuals to disclose their status, writes Ron Horn in a letter to the Washington Post. In response to the op-ed AIDS and Innocence by R. Scott Hitt, Horn says he is one of them because he is gay with AIDS. He does not appreciate the comment from Kimber ...
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Abstract: Orlando, Fla.--The Florida Board of Dentistry announced Saturday that it will require all dentists practicing in the state to take four hours of AIDS prevention training by the end of 1991. Dr. David Acer, a dentist from Stuart, Fla., infected five of his patients with HIV, including Kimberly Bergalis, who is now ne ...
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Abstract: FORT PIERCE - Privacy, the thing Kimberly Bergalis missed most in her life as a very public AIDS victim and crusader, was hers at last Monday night. A closed casket, white tinged with pink, encased the woman whose suffering made her a reluctant martyr for a nation coming to grips with a deadly epidemic. The gaunt, sunk ...
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Abstract: MEMO: See A LETTER FROM KIMBERLY BERGALIS at the end of the story Here are two things you have never seen in AIDS victim Kimberly Bergalis, who was infected by her dentist. Her anger: Do I blame myself? I sure don t . . ., she wrote in a letter to state health officials. I blame (dentist David) Acer and every single on ...
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Abstract: Twenty years after the first cases of AIDS were identified, the number of Americans newly infected with the HIV virus has stabilized at an estimated 40,000 annually. ...
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Abstract: The five plays included in this volume are: Two Rooms, Down the Road, Fortinbras, Lake Street Extension, and Patient A. Of these five, Patient A deals with an AIDS theme, the Kimberly Bergalis AIDS case. Blessing is a prolific playwright who presents a characteristic depth of human feeling and has the ...
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Abstract: This handbook provides users sources of information that may be spread throughout a variety of resources, some of which are dif ...
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Abstract: Health policy expert Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University Law Center has stated that the government should not require HIV-positive doctors to tell their patients they are infected. Gostin, whose proposal is published in today s Journal of the American Medical Association (2000;284:1965-1970), noted that as the rul ...
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Abstract: CHICAGO (AP) - A leading health policy expert says the government should no longer compel HIV-infected doctors to tell patients about their disease, reopening a debate that raged a decade ago after Kimberly Bergalis got AIDS from her Florida dentist. Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University Law Center said the current ...
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Abstract: This is the story of Kimberly Bergalis who was infected with the HIV virus from the dentist David Acer, in Florida and how the CDC struggled to resolve the conflict. It is a book that is full of ethical judgments that will never be totally satisfied in the minds of everyone. The book looks at the investigation that the ...
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Abstract: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines in 1991 recommending that HIV-infected doctors disclose their status to patients before performing exposure- prone procedures. The guidelines came largely in response to outcry following the much publicized case of Dr. David Acer, the Florida dentis ...
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Abstract: MIAMI (AP) -- An AIDS researcher accused of using more than $570,000 in federal grant money for his own use surrendered to authorities Monday, vowing to continue his work. Dr. Lionel Resnick was charged Aug. 21 with 49 federal counts of mail fraud and three counts of money laundering. He was released on $100,000 bond. ...
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Abstract: Over a 10-month period in 1993, researchers conducted a study among ninth graders in the Philadelphia School District to determine which characteristics of health care providers and locations affect teenagers decisions to seek medical care. The study s five stages consisted of small group meetings and surveys in which ...
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Abstract: A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that many teenagers are worried about contracting HIV or another disease from their doctors. The study asked more than 6,800 ninth graders in Philadelphia to identify what they considered important characteristics of health-care providers ...
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Abstract: MIAMI (AP) -- A prominent AIDS researcher is suspected of setting up a phony laboratory and siphoning at least $250,000 in federal grant money, The Miami Herald reported Friday. Dr. Lionel Resnick is suspected of doing virus tests at Mount Sinai Medical Center, using the hospital s staff and equipment, for his private ...
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Abstract: STUART, Fla. (AP) -- The fourth of six people infected with the AIDS virus by a dentist died Saturday. Barbara Webb, 68, slipped into a semi-coma earlier in the week, according to Hospice of Martin. She died on her 45th wedding anniversary to her husband, Robert. She was never bitter about her death, said hospice couns ...
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Abstract: A new scientific study challenges the claims of Kimberly Bergalis and five others who claim they contracted HIV from their dentist, Dr. David Acer. The new study says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vastly overstated DNA test results. Similar strains of the virus were identified in the community, raising ...
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Abstract: Trenton, N.J.--A special commission of health experts and Health Department officials from New Jersey is recommending that physicians and dentists with HIV be allowed to perform surgery. If approved, the proposal would overturn a 1991 policy urging HIV-infected workers to refrain from such procedures. The policy would ...
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Abstract: Sherry Johnson, the 18-year-old Florida woman whose dentist infected her with the AIDS virus, says she is not ready to take on the role of crusader. Johnson is Patient I, the sixth patient of the late Dr. Dave Acer known to be infected with the HIV virus. Johnson, like Kimberly Bergalis three years ago, has become a mu ...
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Abstract: Jensen Beach, Fla.--Only two weeks after revealing that she contracted HIV from her dentist, 18-year-old Sherry Johnson has launched a national media campaign to push for mandatory HIV testing of health-care workers. On May 7, Johnson announced that she was the sixth person infected with HIV by Dr. David Acer, a Stuart ...
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