Gotta love those false positives on HIV tests
Written by Alyx on April 29th, 2005 in culture.
PHILADELPHIA - A third-grader stuck 19 schoolmates with her mother’s diabetes blood-testing needle this week, and one pricked student tested positive for HIV on a preliminary test, officials said. Health officials said the virus could not have been contracted from the needle stick, and they noted that preliminary tests can yield false positives. The risk to students who were stuck after the possibly infected child depends on factors including the depth of the stick, health officials said.
~Alyx
April 29th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
Back when HIV was called HTLV-III, I tested positive. Turned out it could be from a bout with mononucleosis.
Science needs to get better.
And sometimes third graders are evil little fuckers.
April 30th, 2005 at 12:32 am
I call bullshit on the whole HIV=AIDS paradigm.
April 30th, 2005 at 12:45 am
I’ve been HIV negative every year since.