ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, August 30, 1993                   TAG: 9308300076
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: AUSTIN, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

2 LESBIANS POSSIBLY CAUGHT HIV FROM WOMEN

A doctor who's handled dozens of AIDS cases says he's treating two HIV-positive lesbians who may have become infected through sex with women.

If so, Dr. David Wright's patients would be among the nation's first cases of the deadly virus transmitted through lesbian sex.

Wright said his two lesbian HIV patients likely did not contract the virus through shared needles or unprotected sex with men, two of the most common ways the virus is transmitted.

Experts long have said HIV can be transmitted by vaginal secretions. - Associated Press 


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