21.   Health officials predict the number of American women infected heterosexually soon will outpace those who get AIDS by sharing needles during drug use.

22.   Hepatitis B, which can ravage the liver and cause chronic debility and cancer, is most commonly spread by sexual contact and shared needles.

23.   If people in any of those environments were sharing needles with Williams, the results could be grim.

24.   In addition, the desire for drugs leads both men and women to trade sex for drugs, as well as to share needles for injecting drugs.

25.   In Massachusetts, ostrich attitudes toward drug abuse have thwarted AIDS prevention efforts, even though sharing contaminated needles is the leading cause of AIDS in this state.

26.   Intravenous drug users spread the virus among themselves by sharing needles, and pass it on to their partners through sexual contact.

27.   Instead, they share the needles of strangers, getting AIDS and other blood-borne diseases in the process.

28.   Intravenous infection is also a problem among seniors, partly because of aging baby boomers still doing drugs, but also because of diabetics sharing insulin needles.

29.   Most of those infected contracted the virus either through transfusions or other blood products or by sharing needles, according to the CDC.

30.   Nobody had heard of AIDS in Temirtau and, as in the culture of drugs elsewhere, they shared needles.