1. His brother Roy, who is also a haemophiliac, was accused earlier this year of deliberately infecting women with the virus. 2. A court in America has heard claims that a woman became infected with the virus after a visit to the dentist. 3. Government officials have said the woman was infected by anthrax spores found in a mail bin in her office in Hamilton, N.J., near Trenton. 4. In the early years of the epidemic, few women were infected with HIV. 5. It is not that these men are intentionally infecting women. 6. Many AIDS experts have assumed that more women were infected than men in Africa. 7. Sometimes they infect their wives, sometimes women become infected through sexual contact with other men while their husbands are away. 8. The CDC believes the two women were infected by small numbers of anthrax spores on mail that passed through contaminated machinery. 9. The condom tore once, but investigators believe this happened before the woman became infected. 10. Unlike the United States and Europe, AIDS in Africa infects more women than men, and the HIV virus most often is transmitted through heterosexual contact. |