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School Lancet Prank Results in AIDS Scare
Nineteen elementary schoolchildren who were pricked with a diabetes-testing needle by another student are taking strong drugs to fight H.I.V. after one of the children tested positive for the virus, officials said.
The authorities have ruled out the possibility that the child who tested positive for the virus, which causes AIDS, could have been infected by the needle prick.
I would like to know more about school protocols related to children who carry the HIV virus. Certainly it is a great burden for a child to begin life with an infectious disease. It could also open the child up to ridicule or exclusion if others where aware of his or her condition.
At the same time, this incident, although bizarre, is likely not the only one involving infected blood at the grade school level.
It seems that the standard adopted by many institutions is to treat the blood from all individuals as potentially contaminated and as a hazardous material. How is this standard applied at the grade school level where scrapes and cuts are more commonplace? Or, at the High School level, where some sports involved physical contact with the potential for injury?
More later, after research, etc.
Posted by tim at April 30, 2005 10:04 PM
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