Iran HIV protests: 300 infections from one needle called 'statistically inconceivable'
“It’s statistically inconceivable that one needle could infect 300 people”/ Dr Omid Zamani, an AIDS researcher based in Tehran, has been in contact with medical workers in the Lordegan region since the controversy began. According to official figures there are 240 registered addicts in the village. Twenty of them are intravenous drug users, and almost all of them are HIV-positive. I’d call it an “old colony,” because contamination by sharing needles among addicts takes time. Blood tests show that some of the users have been HIV-positive for ...
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