Fear of dying and HIV infection vs hepatitis B infection

L.J. Schneiderman and R.M. Kaplan

American Journal of Public Health, 1992, vol. 82, issue 4, 584-586

Abstract: Accidental exposure to the blood of hepatitis B patients produced less fear than does accidental exposure today to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), even though both have an approximately equal overall risk of death (- 1%). Subjects responding to hypothetical insect-exposure and disease-exposure scenarios chose to avoid the HIV-type risk of 1% chance of exposure/100% chance of death. Fear of certain death seems to account for the greater concern about exposure to HIV than to Hepatitis B.

Date: 1992
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