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A decade ago, Chautauqua County health authorities made history by
making public the name of a living carrier of HIV — turning Nushawn
Williams, a 20- year-old drug dealer, into a poster boy for the AIDS
epidemic.

Williams became a symbol for a disease spread by a million bad
choices, reckless sex and careless drug use. Part of his infamy was
based on unproven accusations that are dubious in retrospect: that he
was a deliberate infector, a twisted Johnny Appleseed of AIDS.

The truth was bad enough: Thirteen of his sex partners — girls and
young women — were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Seven were infected after Williams was told he carried the virus.

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The reason Nushawn Williams was tested, in August 1996, was because
the Chautauqua County public health system worked.

A woman who had tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease,
asked to identify her partners, had named Williams. A county public
health worker tracked Williams down at his Jamestown apartment.

Williams described the experience in an autobiographical manuscript
given to Thomas Shevory, an Ithaca College professor and author of
“Notorious H.I.V.,” a book about the Williams case.

“I didn’t feel like I had HIV,” Williams wrote. “I felt good. So I
went back to selling crack and making money and meeting different
ladies.”

The health worker did persuade him to get tested, though. On Sept. 6,
1996, while in the county jail, Williams was told of the results,
according to Dr. Robert Berke, the county health commissioner. Berke
swore in an affidavit that during the conversation, Williams told the
health care worker he was going to have sex with as many women as he
wanted.

Shevory said when he interviewed him in prison, Williams denied being
informed of his condition.

“There’s no written record of him getting the news,” or the counseling
that is supposed to be mandatory when people are told they have HIV,
Shevory noted.

Williams did later plead guilty to reckless endangerment, agreeing he
had been told, and told a psychiatrist the same thing, Shevory wrote
in “Notorious H.I.V.”

Denial is a common reaction to HIV news, especially in a person as
outwardly healthy as Williams, Shevory said. Still, “I don’t think
there’s any evidence he deliberately tried to infect people,” he said.
Williams, who is now 31 and has changed his name to Shyteek Johnson,
declined requests for an interview for this story.

The scare fades

The lurid accusations became national news 10 years ago, with Williams
portrayed as a deadly predator who might be responsible for scores of
infections. In Jamestown, during the months following the
announcement, about 1,400 people, mostly high school students and
young adults, stood in line to be tested for HIV.

With HIV infection still considered a death sentence by many in 1997,
commentators raced to top each other in calling for punishment. Life
in prison, said then-Gov. George Pataki. No — the death penalty,
Montel Williams suggested on his television show.

Of the 1,400 tested in Jamestown, one infected person was found. The
health scare died down.

As far as health officials know, none of the 13 women infected by
Williams saw her health deteriorate into AIDS, and none has died.

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Yes, that's right.  Ten years later the fourteen people mentioned in
this article are still healthy and living well, despite being
diagnosed HIV+.

No wonder the life expectancy of people diagnosed HIV+ is constantly
being increased.