Child Gives Another AIDS, NBC Reports
Doctors have identified a rare AIDS case in which one child infected another child while in the care of a foster home, NBC Nightly News reported Friday.
It said the children are between 2 and 5 years old and that the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus is thought to have been transmitted when one child bled on the other.
The network said doctors at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Piscataway, N.J., discovered the case.
NBC did not identify the doctors but said that they intend to publish the case in the New England Journal of Medicine, which prohibits researchers from discussing cases publicly before they are published.
By studying the molecular structure of the virus in each child, researchers have established that the AIDS infection, which occurred sometime in a 15-month period, passed from one to the other, NBC reported. The network did not identify the source of its information.
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