Professor Robin Weiss of University College London wrote in Nature that: "There no longer seems to be any doubt that AIDS is caused by an infectious agent": the overload of foreign protein theory did not explain why single transfusions could transmit AIDS, nor how infants acquired infections from affected mothers. He commented that: "ELISA [enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay] screening tests for blood banks are urgently needed".

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Knowledge of the Risk of AIDS