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Originally Posted by Demeter
Obviously the child was previously infected, however, I would imagine there is some concern that those chioldren pricked after the HIV+ child may now become infected.
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Originally Posted by Article
...noted that preliminary tests can yield false positives.
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clavus, the kind of test that gives results the same day as infection are probably inaccurate. If I recall correctly tests for HIV are done several times over in order to make what might be a 98% correct test yield a highly accurate result. Such a quick test probably errs on the side of caution and gives a false positive now and then, much more often than it will give a false negative.
It is not obvious that any of the children are infected as the only source of information was published on the same day of the incident, which is too soon to get any accurate test results. I would predict that none of the children had HIV after all the tests came in, and so there was nothing worthy of being reported.