Subject: AIDS Concentrate Infects Second Laboratory Worker
Date: Published: 10/9/87 37 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    AIDS Concentrate Infects
    Second Laboratory Worker

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A second laboratory worker has been
 infected with the AIDS virus after handling highly
 concentrated solutions of the agent, National Institutes of
 Health officials disclosed.
    The officials said the worker, who was not identified,
 apparently became infected after being cut on the hand during
 the process of concentrating the virus.  Dr. Robert McKinney,
 director of the institutes' division of safety, said the
 worker was contaminated late in 1985 and the infection was
 first detected in May 1986.
    Although tests have confirmed AIDS antibodies in the
 worker's blood, McKinney said there are no indications the
 person has developed symptoms of acquired immune deficiency
 syndrome.
    The worker, employed by a federal contractor in the
 Washington area, was handling virus concentrates used for
 research and for making AIDS diagnostic tests.
    Last month, the institutes reported the first case of a
 worker contaminated while handling concentrated virus.  That
 worker has developed no signs of the disease.
    Institutes officials said a re-examination of lab-safety
 guidelines for the virus, established by the federal Centers
 for Disease Control five years ago, showed that they are
 adequate if followed and needed no modification.

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