Six Swiss Children Are Treated for AIDS
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BERN, Switzerland — Six Swiss children are being treated with the AIDS drug AZT after sticking themselves with drug addicts’ needles in parks and playgrounds.
The children, aged 2 to 5, were treated as possible AIDS victims, Uri Schaad, a doctor at Bern’s Inselspital hospital, said Tuesday. He said it was unlikely they had been infected with the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
The Bern city council in June voted, in a move to confine drug use, to allow addicts to use needles in a park outside the Parliament building.
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