the first person known to contract AIDS from a health- care worker, lost her two-year battle against the disease on Sunday. She was 23. Bergalis died early Sunday in her Fort Pierce home ...

Bergalis is believed to have contracted AIDS from her dentist, Dr. David Acer. Four other patients also are thought to have been infected with AIDS by Acer, who died of AIDS-related causes a year ago.

“AMA Votes Down Mandatory AIDS Testing, Group OKs Voluntary Checks,” Miami Herald, June 27, 1991. “Kimberly Bergalis Dies: ‘She’s Free From The Hell,’ Father of AIDS Victim Says ...

Kimberly Bergalis, who stirred a national debate over AIDS testing when she became the first apparent case of a patient contracting the virus from a health care worker, died Sunday at her home in Ft.

Kimberly Bergalis, 23, died of AIDS on Sunday. She was the first known person to contract the disease from an infected health care provider. She got it from her dentist in 1987. As the service ...

Funeral services for the Tamaqua-born Bergalis, who died of AIDS Sunday at 23 after contracting the disease from her dentist, drew nearly 300 people, many of them from television stations and ...

Bergalis, 23, is dying of AIDS. She was one of five patients to contract the AIDS virus from Dr. David Acer, a Stuart, Fla., dentist who died last year. Health experts still don’t know how the ...

also,” Mr. Bergalis told members of the subcommittee on health and the environment, angered that no law required Dr. David Acer, his daughter’s AIDS-infected dentist who died of the disease in ...

Kimberly Bergalis, the shy young woman who shed her anonymity to warn the world she had been infected with AIDS by her dentist, died from the disease at her Fort Pierce home early Sunday.

Pierce. ”I don`t know what credibility Mr. Parsons has.” Kimberly Bergalis died from AIDS-related illnesses in December. She contracted the AIDS virus during a 1987 tooth extraction by Acer.

FORT PIERCE — The youngest sister of Kimberly Bergalis, who died of AIDS in 1991 at age 23 after contracting the disease from her dentist during a dental procedure, has died in a car crash.