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Article: Mother gets AIDS virus from infant
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 7, 1986
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ATLANTA Health officials yesterday reported the first case of a
parent getting the AIDS virus from a child, but they said the
"unusual" incident does not indicate routine contact can cause the
disease.
The child, now 2, was born with a severe intestinal abnormality
that required numerous operations and blood transfusions. In one of
those transfusions, he picked up the AIDS virus from the blood of an
infected donor, the ...