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A 91-year-old man in Florida has become infected with the AIDS virus after a prostitute bit his hand, health officials said yesterday. Although there is apparently only one previous case on record of the AIDS virus being transmitted through a bite, health officials do not believe the new case significantly changes the way scientists believe the disease is spread. The incident was similar to the earlier bite case, reported in 1987, in which two adult sisters got in a fight. One sister, a drug abuser who was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, had several teeth broken when she was punched in the mouth. She then bit her uninfected sister, severely tearing the skin and spreading blood between the two women

Health officials said on Oct 27, 1995 that 91-year-old Elmer Hutto became the second person to become infected with the AIDS virus through a human bite. The AP reported that Naomi Morrison, a prostitute, bit the Florida man while trying to rob him in Aug 1994. Morrison's gums were bleeding at the time of the attack, and the virus almost certainly came from her blood, and not her saliva. The CDC said that no cases of HIV transmission are clearly attributable only to saliva

A 91-year-old man in Florida has become infected with the AIDS virus after a prostitute bit his hand, health officials said Friday. Although there is apparently only one previous case on record of the AIDS virus being transmitted through a bite, health officials do not believe the new case significantly changes the way scientists believe the disease is spread

A 91-year-old man in West Palm Beach has become infected with the AIDS virus after a prostitute bit his hand, health officials said yesterday. Although there is apparently only one previous case on record of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, being transmitted through a bite, health officials do not believe the new case significantly changes the understanding of how the disease is spread. The incident was similar to the earlier bite case, reported in 1987, in which two adult sisters got in a fight. One sister, a drug abuser who was infected with HIV, had several teeth broken when she was punched in the mouth. She then bit her uninfected sister, severely tearing the skin and spreading blood between the two women

Summary: Health officials say an infected prostitute with bleeding gums wounded an aged Florida man she was trying to rob A 91-year-old man in Florida has become infected with the AIDS virus after a prostitute bit his hand, health officials said Friday. The incident was similar to the earlier bite case, reported in 1987, in which two adult sisters got in a fight. One sister, a drug abuser who was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, had several teeth broken when she was punched in the mouth. She then bit her uninfected sister, severely tearing the skin and spreading blood between the two women

The 'myocardial ischemia' that sent President Boris N. Yeltsin to the hospital yesterday for the second time in three months is a common, serious heart condition that affects millions of people around the world. Myocardial ischemia describes a lack of oxygen-rich blood to meet the heart's needs to pump blood. Such ischemia usually produces the chest pains of angina, although aides to Mr. Yeltsin, who is 64, did not use the word angina. Ischemia (pronounced iss-KEE-mee-ya) can occur anywhere in the body. It is described by its anatomical location, and examples include abdominal ischemia or the transient ischemic attack that can signal a stroke. Aides said Mr. Yeltsin's ischemia was caused by heart disease.

The Nobel awards were created by the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite. Yet the prize almost never came into being. The king of Sweden and the prime minister went to court to fight Nobel's will because they believed his wealth would be scattered around the world, to Sweden's loss

Responding to congressional criticism and a report by the National Academy of Sciences, HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala said on Oct 12, 1995 that a top agency official was being designated as the government's blood-safety director. Philip R. Lee, assistant secretary for health, will have overall responsibility for the nation's blood supply when there is a serious danger of contamination

In a warning to eye doctors, federal health officials said Tuesday that patients who suffer bacterial infections after surgery to remove cataracts and implant lenses need treatment with antibiotics that are injected only into the eye and not systemically through a vein

Fifty years after tuberculosis became curable, a worldwide surge in drug-resistant strains of the disease is occurring not just because of the limits of medical science but because of the profit motives of pharmaceutical companies, experts at an international meeting said. Many participants in last week's conference, in all 250 experts from 40 countries, also criticized the World Health Organization, a United Nations agency in Geneva, for spending minuscule amounts on tuberculosis after declaring it a ``global health emergency.'' While it was the first time the agency had so designated any disease, it spent only $800,000 of its $1 billion annual budget on tuberculosis. It also spent $4.6 million from other sources on tuberculosis last year. An overwhelming majority of cases occur in developing countries; fewer than 10 percent occur in developed countries. In the United States, for example, there were about 26,000 new cases of active tuberculosis reported last year. Participants at the conference said drug company officials told them the low number of cases in this country represented too small a market to warrant large investments