Children With HIV Infection

In your editorial “Listen to the Doctor on AIDS” (May 29), you mention the position of Dr. Louis Sullivan, secretary of health and human services, who says that immigrant carriers of the AIDS virus pose no threat to the public at large. I am a physician and I strongly disagree with Dr. Sullivan and his co-workers, who continue to fail to take this disease seriously, even in the face of a steadily escalating, incredible tragedy.

I treat patients who are HIV positive and I live with the reality that one slip of the scalpel could mean slow death for me. Health care workers, firemen, policemen and many others along with their spouses are now living with this threat. Who exactly is the “public at large”?

RICHARD WETZEL, MD

Huntington Beach