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Huh. I'd take a bet that it's less than a dozen. I think it would be difficult to transfer it-- you'd have to have an OB-GYN who was also do research who didn't
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Huh. I'd take a bet that it's less than a dozen. I think it would be difficult to transfer it-- you'd have to have an OB-GYN who was also do research who didn't follow proper cleaning protocols between researching and doctoring.
Unlike Devils, we don't bite eachother's cervices as a way to say "hello".
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- sjg007 9y agoI would make a stronger bet and say it's exactly zero.
- civilian 9y agoWell, does a non-malignant HeLa tumor that's been artificially transplanted count? Because if so, we may have both lost our hypotheyical bets. :] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-that-the-HeLa-immortal-cell-line-could-cause-an-infection-or-cancer https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-that-the-HeLa-immortal-... (I can't find numbers of how many tumor masses lasted, but hundreds of prisoners were injected.)
- Fomite 9y agoAnd if the OB-GYN is making that kind of contamination error, the results of that are likely going to be washed out by HPV cross-contamination. This is like asking how many times someone had been killed by the shell casing from an automatic weapon. It might not be zero, but we're talking some pretty one-off, House M.D.-esq circumstances.