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PRO/EDR> HIV – China: (ZJ) nosocomial transmission

HIV/AIDS -- ChinaA Chinese hospital has admitted accidentally infecting 5 people with HIV because a staff member reused medical equipment that should have been discarded. Officials said that a technician reused a tube used to treat an individual with HIV on other patients.Provincial authorities described it as a "severe violation of procedure". Five people had been fired at Hangzhou's Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, they said. Provincial health officials said they were informed Read more [...]