No healthcare worker has ever died of a needle stick unless they were persuaded to undergo antiviral treatment. You say otherwise, then provide me with a name. I don't believe you can, because to the best of my kowledge there isn't one. Not one.
The demand for the name of any healthcare worker is preposterous on the face of it. How could I obtain it in the first place, and then disclose it without liability?
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Give or take a year, National Guard troops were screened for HIV antibodies in 1987. After I received a scholarship from the goverment's Health Profession's Scholarship Program for medical school, I was discharged from my unit in May 1988. I had been an acting platoon sergeant at the time. One of my squad leaders was positive. Show me antiretroviral drug toxicity in blood and blood product recipients prior to that time in blood and blood product recipients.
Unfortunately I don't have my references with me as I write, so I can't provide references or quotes. There have been several challenges trying to identify any healthcare worker infected with HIV who became an AIDS case without the intervention of antivirals. To my knowledge no individual meeting these criteria has ever been identified. I'm open to the possibility that someone exists, but its strange that not a single such individual has ever been identified.
Antiviral treatment is only one of a number of massive, chronic insults to the immune system that can cause immune system collapse and the onset of opportunisitic infections and diseases that are, because of the unique and circular way that AIDS is defined, commonly (or uncommonly) associated with AIDS. Neither I nor anyone sharing my perspective on this disease would suggest that prior to the use of AZT and other antivirals, that people weren't dying of a number of diseases ravaging individuals with profoundly weakened immune systems, only that the use of antivirals to treat otherwise benign HIV infections acerbated the situation, and created the false impression that the epidemic was spreading.