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“Got it through sharing needles” was the 90s version of “got herpes from a toilet seat.”
by pbj1968 2y ago
“Got it through sharing needles” was the 90s version of “got herpes from a toilet seat.”
- watwut 2y agoEven these days, when cops accidently pike themselves with needles when dealing with addicts, they go to HIV center for preventative drugs. So that they, a cop who got piked exactly once, do not get HIV.
- pbj1968 2y agoYes, obviously.
- onetokeoverthe 2y ago[dead]
- alexey-salmin 2y agoUm, no? Unlike with toilet seats, tons of people got it this way. There were even cases of hospital outbreaks due to insufficient sterilization of reusable syringes.
- pbj1968 2y agoCitation needed.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoIs it really that hard to find? About 270 patients, mostly children, were nosocomially infected with HIV subtype G in seventeen hospitals in 1988–1989. The infection was mainly transmitted between children through contaminated catheters and needles, and from children to mothers through breast-feeding. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905505/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905505/
- pbj1968 2y ago[flagged]