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  1. Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!usenet
  3. From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
  4. Subject: AIDS -- Risk from Secondary Infections
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.183405.3962@cs.ucla.edu>
  6. Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
  7. Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: sole.cs.ucla.edu
  9. Archive-Number: 6475
  10. Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  11. References: <1992Nov3.175034.2924@cs.ucla.edu>
  12. Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:52:22 -0800
  13. Approved: dgreen@sti.com 
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  16. What is the risk of contracting secondary infections (opportunistic
  17. biologicals infecting an AIDS patient as a result of a compromised
  18. immune system) when living with an AIDS infected individual?  While
  19. it is commonly said that the risk of transmission of AIDS is quite
  20. low provided no body fluids are exchanged (is this actually true?)
  21. it seems to me that cohabitors with AIDS infected individuals stand
  22. substantially increased risk of contracting secondary infections.
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