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Security officer bitten by man claiming to have AIDS
Healthcare Security Weekly, November 4, 2006
A man was arrested on felony charges after biting a security officer who was trying to subdue him in the emergency room at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines. Police said that while hospital staff members were checking him in to the hospital on November 24, the 51-year-old Des Moines man told workers he had AIDS and wanted to kill someone, reported KCCI Channel 8 News.
The man began yelling at security officers, threatening that he would bite them and infect them with AIDS. When police officers and the security guards attempted to control him, he was able to bite one security guard, the television station reported.
The injured security guard was treated for the bite wound and will undergo HIV testing.
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