NEW DELHI — Police officials in northern India were searching on Tuesday for a fake doctor suspected of infecting dozens of his patients with H.I.V. by reusing a dirty syringe. The patients were treated by what is known as a “jhola chhaap doctor,” a wandering medical practitioner whose only verifiable qualification (a chhaap is a trademark or official seal) is a jhola, the cotton shoulder bag from which treatments are dispensed. In this case, health officials in Unnao, a primarily rural district two hours’ drive southwest of Lucknow, became concerned last July when an unusual number of patients visiting a government hospital began testing positive in routine H.I.V. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMedical officials in Unnao said that they had then tested hundreds of people who lived in the same areas as these H.I.V.-positive patients, including those who seemed perfectly healthy.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2018 17:24 UTC