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What Does A Person With Hiv Look Like?
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AIDS patients and pets; Bone marrow transplant patients and pets; Chemotherapy patients and pets
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Persons with weakened immune systems are often advised to give up their pets to avoid getting various diseases from the animals. Persons in this category include those who take high doses of steroids and others who have:
- Alcoholism
- Cancer
- Cirrhosis
- Diabetes
- Had an organ transplant
- Had their spleen removed
- HIV
- Kidney failure
- Leukemia
However, many patients decide to keep...
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