1. She slowly choked to death, a combination of tuberculosis and laryngitis-two of the diseases that infect Aids patients. 2. At least two former patients became infected with hepatitis C within weeks after Thomas was fired. 3. A surgeon suffering from AIDS has almost certainly infected a patient during an operation at a hospital near Paris, the French Health Ministry says. 4. But there are fears the cancer-derived cells could cause cancer and that cells from pigs could infect patients with animal viruses. 5. Doctors who perform invasive procedures could conceivably infect their patients. 6. If confirmed, it would be the second known case of a doctor infecting a patient with the virus that causes AIDS during a medical intervention. 7. If confirmed, it would mark the second known case of a doctor infecting a patient with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, during a medical intervention. 8. In about half of the dozens of TB cases reported annually in the Glades, patients are also infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. 9. It interferes with the replication of the cytomegalovirus, which infects AIDS patients and destroys the retina of the eye. 10. Now a Pennsylvania biotechnology company has patented a method that is expected to determine quickly which bacteria have infected a patient and which antibiotic will best kill them. |