Who was the first health care provider to acquire AIDS?
1. Linda Richards
2. Clara Maass
3. Barbara Fassbinder
4. Sharon Lane
Correct Answer: 3
Barbara Fassbinder was infected with HIV while caring for a patient with AIDS. She is recognized as the first health care provided to acquire AIDS on the job and died as a result of her infection in 1994. Linda Richards is considered the first trained nurse in the United States. Clara Maass was a nurse who allowed herself to be bitten by a mosquito to prove a theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes. She subsequently died of the disease. Sharon Lane was the only nurse to die as a result of enemy fire during the Vietnam War.
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