A young nurse develops a fatal illness, and her doctors wonder if she was infected by one of her patients. Forensic scientists, genetic researchers, and even the police joined together to solve the mystery. And they discovered this was no accident.

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In 1994, Janice Trauthan was a single mother of two young children

working as a nurse in the small town of Lafayette, Louisiana.

A few years back, she started to develop some unusual symptoms,

and she did what most health professionals do, sought the advice of her doctor.

Started with a pain in my eyes, ocular pain, movement of my eyes.

Did seek some medical attention for that, and was told it was probably my sinuses,

not to worry too much about it.

Janice visited several doctors before she finally saw her

gynecologist for a checkup.

And then lymph nodes started to appear, swollen lymph nodes.

Suspecting she had a virus, her gynecologist ordered a full battery of tests.

When she got the results, Janice was both

thrilled and devastated. At this checkup, not only did she find out she was pregnant,

but she found out that she was HIV positive.

There were several possible explanations for how Janice had been infected with HIV.

Janice worked as a hospital nurse.

She may have been infected from one of the AIDS patients there.

Another possibility was that Janice became infected from a previous lover. Janice's primary care physician at the time, Dr. Richard Schmidt, told colleagues his theory

as to how Janus became infected.

He said, Janus is a slut. She sleeps around. She's in the bars at night.

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