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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
Can you get AIDS from an infected person sneezing and maybe getting mucus in your eye?
I think it's obviously worse than AIDS. AIDS has been an epidemic in Africa for a long time so the medical people there have systems in place to protect themselves, yet they're still getting Ebola...
Pete
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We're social workers, y'know...me and the blonde. And although we're pretty much mental health workers as opposed to settlement house type social workers and case management type social workers, we have occasionally become involved in non-mental health cases. One such case from a long time ago involved the particularly sad and infuriating case of a 7 year old black kid in the system who had been born HIV positive, courtesy of his promiscuous mother. She was HIV positive, but at the time had never developed the full AIDS condition. But this little guy started showing full blown AIDS symptoms by the time he was 5. Beautiful and devastatingly sick kid. So from time to time his wonderful foster parents (speci@lists in fostering AIDS kids) would let us bring him out to our place in suburban Chi where there was room for him to run around and get away from his sick foster bros and sis' for a while. We did everything with him. Lots of contact...tears, sneezing, and his persistently runny nose pouring down on his upper lip while he sat in one of our laps. The bloody knee scrapes and occasional cut fingers were more than a little scary though. Anyway, he's dead now for almost 25 years, and we're still here.