From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
Subject: Re: accupuncture and AIDS
Organization: Strawman Incorporated
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In article <C5t76D.2x6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Euclid K.) writes:
>aliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM (Alice Taylor) writes:
>
>>A friend of mine is seeing an acupuncturist and
>>wants to know if there is any danger of getting
>>AIDS from the needles.
>
>	Ask the practitioner whether he uses the pre-sterilized disposable
>needles, or if he reuses needles, sterilizing them between use.  In the
>former case there's no conceivable way to get AIDS from the needles.  In
>the latter case it's highly unlikely (though many practitioners use the
>disposable variety anyway).

It is illegal to perform acupuncture with unsterilized needles. No licensed
practitioner would dare do this. Also there is not a single documented case
of transmission of AIDS via acupuncture needles. I wouldn't worry about it.
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