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Testing Blood for Aids Virus
Summary: Essay discusses the subject of testing blood for the AIDS virus.
If samples of blood is going to be tested for infectious disease such as the AIDS virus, it is extremely essential that the individual's blood being tested for the virus has the right to know if they test positive or negative for AIDS. The first thing that should be considered for random blood testing is to obtain proper consent from those individual who blood might be tested. Those individuals who are unaware of the random blood testing will be at risk, because they have no knowledge of what the test suggested. One of the test used for the testing of the AIDS virus is the Elias test. It is estimated that the test has a sensitivity rate of about 99.8% and a 99.8% specificity rate. The sensitivity percentage rate means that out of every 1000 person's being tested for the virus 998 of those individuals will test positive and two of those...
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