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HIV Transmission, Healthcare Workers and Media Hype

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 11 , November 1989 , pp. 503 - 504
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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