... HIV is also spread through contact with infected blood. Another very common and even more chilling way of contracting this very long and painful disease is through the use of a hypodermic needle, used to inject heroine, or by sharing a straw to draw in cocaine, or any other intra-nasal narcotic, through the nose. Transmission from patient to health-care worker or vice-versa via accidental pricks with contaminated needles or other medical instruments however is rare. One such case actually occurred however, to a boy who was only thirteen years of age. This boy was not a drug user, or sexually promiscuous, he was simply a hemophiliac and needed surgery to treat a case of pneumonia he contracted. Unfortunately for Ryan White, he came out of the operating room much different then when he went in. He contracted this disease during a blood transfusion that was taking place during his surgery. ...

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