Many ER patients test positive for HIV while in most infectious stage

(American College of Emergency Physicians) Human Immunodeficiency Virus screening for emergency patients at an institution with a large number of ethnic minority, underinsured and uninsured people reveals few are HIV positive, but of those who are, nearly one-quarter are in the acute phase and more than one-quarter have infections that have already advanced to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The results of the study were reported online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine.