1.   Hepatitis B occurs primarily through blood transfusions, use of contaminated syringes or through nonmedical practices such as tattooing, acupuncture, ear-piercing or razor sharing.

2.   An anonymous letter said contaminated syringes would be thrown at the judges in the courtroom, the sources said.

3.   It was in Rwanda, while ill with viral meningitis in a crude hospital, that Schmidt believes she was infected by contaminated syringes.

4.   Yeganeh said more than half of those infected were drug addicts who had used contaminated syringes and the rest through other means, including sex.

5.   Kakar stressed that AIDS had to be taken seriously even in Afghanistan, not because of any sexual impropriety, but because of the dangers of contaminated syringes.