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Morgan Leadbitter wrote:

Say-it-how-it-is wrote:

ILOVEBOURNEMOUTH wrote: How much longer do have to wait until read about a child being blinded by coming into contact with dog poop???

This isn't about dogs but a needle. Since where does it say dog poo on here. This poor child got hurt by a needle and all you care about is talking about dog poo, how sad.

The point is that the chances of our local children catching horrible infections from dog faeces are far higher than them catching HIV from a dirty needle. Those infections can lead to blindness. You put needle and drugs and child all in the same prose and people are up in arms about the remote possibility of infection. Shame that we dont have the same reaction to a far more common problem.

Statistically the chances of both are remote. Also I don't know why the emphasis seems to be on HIV because there is far more of a likelihood of contracting something else i.e. Hepatitis than HIV from a needle, it's akin to saying that every drug user is AIDS ridden, which of course is nonsense."