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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / February 2008Killer HIV strikes again
<http://www.hospitalhealthcare.com/default.asp?title=Nurse%22diedafterneedleslipp ed%22&page=article.display&article.id=8308>: ----- Begin Quote ----- A 42-year-old nurse died after contracting HIV while taking blood from an infected patient at a hospital, it has emerged. Juliet Young was taking the sample at the Maudsley psychiatric hospital in south London in June 1999, when the needle slipped and she pricked her thumb. [...] Ms Young was wearing gloves but contracted HIV shortly afterwards, and went on to develop AIDS before dying of pneumonia last January. ----- End Quote -----  Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 4,781 days and counting... What on earth could have destroyed her immune system so fast, she worked in a hospital and must have had the best possible care. -- Message posted using http://www.talkabouthealthnetwork.com/group/misc.health.aids/ More information at http://www.talkabouthealthnetwork.com/faq.html > What on earth could have destroyed her immune system so fast, she worked in > a hospital and must have had the best possible care. Almost 10 years. Pretty good considering she worked in such a hostile environment to any immune system. Hospitals are breeding grounds for any filth that exists. >>What on earth could have destroyed her immune system so fast, she worked >>in a hospital and must have had the best possible care. >Almost 10 years. Pretty good considering she worked >in such a hostile environment to any immune system. >Hospitals are breeding grounds for any filth that exists. Eight and a half years. I would have expected her to have had a good, above average, immune system at the time of HIV 'infection,' so her decline would have started from a stronger position. I very much doubt the nurse would have had very much direct contact with patients after she was diagnosed HIV+. What we see here is a clear case of death by prescription. :) Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 4,782 days and counting... Martin wrote... > I very much doubt the nurse would have had very much direct contact > with patients after she was diagnosed HIV+. Here in the USA there is a strong national disabilities law that forbids discrimination against HIV patients. I read a story of a surgeon who was permitted to perform open-heart surgery despite his arms being covered in festering AIDS sores, and the most the hospital could do is require he wear a double pair of gloves. Then there was the tattoo parlor which was sued for refusing to tattoo an AIDS patient. The hospital didn't only not transfer the nurse to a back room position, they were practically required to promote her because she had HIV. >Martin wrote... >> I very much doubt the nurse would have had very much direct contact >> with patients after she was diagnosed HIV+. >Here in the USA there is a strong national disabilities law that >forbids discrimination against HIV patients. I don't consider HIV to be a disability. >I read a story of a surgeon who was permitted to perform >open-heart surgery despite his arms being covered in festering AIDS >sores, and the most the hospital could do is require he wear a double >pair of gloves. What happens when a cripple who uses a wheelchair wants to be a firefighter or a homosexual wants to join the armed forces? Some people are obviously unsuited to some professions. :) :) :) Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 4,785 days and counting... >What on earth could have destroyed her immune system so fast, she worked in >a hospital and must have had the best possible care. That's what I thought. And, of course, there is the 'HIV morning after pill' too. Didn't it work? This article, <http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=98723&in_page_id=34>, suggests the nurse was 'infected' with HIV-2. HIV science invented HIV-2 to explain why some of the infected in Africa, particularly West Africa, don't die as quickly as HIV science dictates: "Ms Young was diagnosed with the African strain of HIV weeks after the incident on June 3, 1999 and she went on to develop Aids." The article also contains: "And her GP Dr Raja Sinha, of the Maddock Way surgery, said Ms Young had been the model patient." Presumably "model patient" means she took all the killer HIV medication that she was prescribed. And, perhaps, that's what killed her. Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 4,782 days and counting... Yeah no doubt a case of hit hard hit early, to give her the best chance possible... but that pesky bloody virus was just too clever lol. What morons. MDs (merchants of death) I was told to expect about 5 yrs before slip sliding away, because of my age, so thats next week... eek. -- Message posted using http://www.talkabouthealthnetwork.com/group/misc.health.aids/ More information at http://www.talkabouthealthnetwork.com/faq.html >Yeah no doubt a case of hit hard hit early, to give her the best chance >possible... but that pesky bloody virus was just too clever lol. What >morons. MDs (merchants of death) There is something unsettling about this case. The nurse knew when she was 'infected' and how, had less deadly HIV-2 and presumably had access to the best HIV medication and services available, yet she died after only eight and a half years. However I was probably 'infected with more deadly HIV-1' several times, can't pinpoint the exact date of transmission and don't take HIV wonder drugs but remain HIV asymptomatic (having no symptoms of HIV infection). >I was told to expect about 5 yrs before slip sliding away, because of my >age, so thats next week... eek. We'll miss you. :) What annoys me is that no matter why I finally stop breathing it will be chalked up as another HIV death. I've been wonder where I should place myself on the HIV death chart at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hiv-timecourse.png>. Unfortunately it suggests I should have died three years ago! Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 4,786 days and counting...
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