31.   Employers also will be required to document injuries from contaminated needles as part of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act.

32.   Her son, Pham Manh Cuong, was dying of AIDS, apparently contracted from a contaminated needle during more than two decades of opium addiction.

33.   HIV is contracted through blood transfusions, sexual contact and contaminated needles.

34.   It is most often spread through sexual contact, contaminated needles or syringes shared by drug abusers or infected blood.

35.   It usually takes contaminated needles, or contact with blood, to spread the infection.

36.   Soccer officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Omar believes he contracted the virus through a contaminated needle, possibly during a visit to the dentist.

37.   The state Health Department had opposed lifting the ban, citing concerns about the possible spread of the HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated needles.