31.   The health authorities stressed the risk of him infecting patients was remote.

32.   The incident is only the second known case in which a health professional has infected a patient, according to Montagnier, who co-authored the report.

33.   The Hospital Authority is now awaiting test results to ascertain if the patient has been infected with the disease.

34.   The likelihood of doctors infecting patients is so small that the CDC has not even tried to put a number on it, Chamberland said.

35.   The Zagreb patients were infected by pork imported from neighboring Bosnia, where the lax post-war state authorities have allowed unregulated food production and smuggling.

36.   Tillmann and Stapleton both strongly warned against intentionally infecting HIV patients with hepatitis G while research continues, a warning echoed by Wolinsky.

37.   Visits to hospital patients, planned operations and some other procedures were postponed because of the fear that vulnerable patients could be infected.

38.   Bangladesh has formed a National Steering Committee on arsenic toxicity to survey and monitor arsenic contamination as well as to treat the arsenic infected patients.

39.   Chamberland said the likelihood of doctors infecting patients was so miniscule the CDC had not tried to put a number on it.

40.   Chen gave an assurance then that no patient had been infected by the contaminated serum.