Acute HIV Infection after Acupuncture Treatments

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To the Editor: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be transmitted by the inoculation of blood by needles shared by drug abusers and by needle-stick injuries in health care workers, although the probability of infection in health care workers is low.1 , 2 We describe a patient with symptomatic seroconversion that appeared to be related to acupuncture.A previously healthy 17-year-old boy living in Paris was referred with diffuse lymph-node hyperplasia that had occurred 12 weeks before, during a mononucleosis-like illness of sudden onset. The symptoms included fever that lasted for eight days, with sweating, headache, sore throat, myalgias, arthralgias, and a macular . . .

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