Imagine You Find Out You're HIV Positive

and then....

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Hundreds of people taking HIV tests at New York clinics between
November 2007 and April of this year were mistakenly informed they were
HIV-positive, the New York City Health Department, said, according to
an article published on Sunday in the New York Post.

About 232 people were involved in this situation. They took a mouth
swab test to check for HIV, which results came back positive. They
further took a blood test, which revealed they were HIV negative.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the mouth swab test on
March 26, 2004. The advantage of this test is that it can be done
without a needle. The manufacturer of this test is OraSure
Technologies. The test, called the OraQuick Rapid HIV Test for Oral
Fluid provides results in 20 minutes using saliva. This test can detect
only HIV type 1 (HIV-1) antibodies.

The company is currently under an investigation run by the Department
of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Also, the company itself is trying to figure out what exactly has led
to this unfortunate situation.

Meanwhile, the Department of Health has stopped using the OraSure swab test.

Assistant Health Commissioner Dr. Susan Blank told the Post that
“nobody was misled or harmed,” at least physically, the patients being
provided a blood test to know for sure if they were infected with the
HIV virus.

sue them.... that can kill someone... just from worrying

LadyFlo wrote:

sue them.... that can kill someone... just from worrying

I know

What a grave mistake...