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Article: Artificial Insemination Cited In Hepatitis B Infection
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- The Washington Post
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- March 3, 1987
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The first documented case of hepatitis B transmitted through
artificial insemination has prompted health officials to urge that
all sperm donors be screened for the liver ailment.
A 37-year-old Colorado woman developed acute viral hepatitis B in
1982 several months after being artificially inseminated with sperm
from an anonymous donor. Later it was discovered that the donor
semen contained the hepatitis B virus. The woman recovered fully
after three weeks in the hospital.
Potential transmission of hepatitis B through semen is well
known, but infection through artificial insemination had been
theoretical until the Colorado case, the Journal of the American
Medical Association reported.
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