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November 8, 2005
Russian Syringe Stabber on the Loose!
by Staff
November 8, 2005—A Russian man sticking strangers with a syringe has been menacing the citizens of Ekaterinburg, feeding a national panic about intentional HIV transmission. The attacker last struck on Sunday night, jabbing a woman in line at a drug store—the fifth of the stabber’s targets tested for HIV so far at a regional AIDS center.