The Nation - News from Jan. 26, 1989
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French doctors reported what may be the first documented case in medical literature of infection with the AIDS virus through an acupuncture needle. Doctors at the Necker Hospital in Paris described the case of a 17-year-old boy who apparently became infected with HIV--the virus that causes the deadly disease--when he underwent acupuncture for tendinitis. “We believe that the incidence of HIV transmission by acupuncture is very low,” the doctors wrote in reporting the case in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said that there have been no documented cases of infection with the AIDS virus in the United States from an acupuncture needle.
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