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Infection Linked To Drug Use In Women.(human herpesvirus-8)
2001 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, staff medical writer- Intravenous drug use and sexually transmitted diseases in women are linked to infection with human herpesvirus-8, the virus responsible for Kaposi's sarcoma, according to new study findings.
"Human herpesvirus-8 ... is transmitted sexually among homosexual men, but little is known of its transmission among women," explained M.J. Cannon and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Although HHV-8 has been detected in blood, there has been no clear evidence of blood-borne transmission."
Cannon et al. identified a number of risk factors for HHV-8 infection in their report in the New England Journal of Medicine, including several that suggest that blood-borne transmission of the virus is indeed possible for women.
The frequency of intravenous drug use was strongly linked to the risk of HHV-8 infection in the women studied, they said. For women at low risk for sexual transmission of the virus, more than a third (36%) of injection drug users were HHV-[8.sup.+] compared with none of the drug-free women.
Moreover, study data showed that infection with other sexually transmitted diseases was also associated with a significantly higher risk of HHV-8 infection. In a multivariate analysis, Cannon et ...
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