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According to an investigation by the CDC and New York city and state health officials, a kidney transplant recipient contracted the virus from a donor in an unnamed New York City hospital in 2009. The male donor acknowledged that he had engaged in unprotected sex with another man after he was screened for HIV, but before he donated the organ. The New York hospital tested the donor 79 days before transplant, when he showed no evidence of infection, but did not re-test him closer to the surgery that removed the organ.

The centers' 1994 guidelines for organ-donor screening, which are being revised, did not address the timing of screening tests.

The CDC is also recommending the use of a test that detects the virus within eight to 10 days of infection.

Of the three major transplant centers serving the city, Mount Sinai Medical Center said the event did not occur there; a spokesman for another, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, said, "We don't have any information about this." New York University Langone Medical Center said that it would be "inappropriate" to comment.

Thanks to screening of organ donors for HIV, the chance of contracting the virus from a transplant is remote. The CDC estimates the risk of HIV transmission from deceased donors is about one in 25,000 donors, or about one every three years. "This may be happening more frequently than we recognize and we are likely missing cases," said Matthew J. Kuehnert, director of the CDC's Office of Blood, Organ, and other Tissue Safety.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a public-private partnership that sets nationalpolicies for organ allocation and screening, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, which operates the system, are formulating a policy for living-donor screening that would keep patients safe without compromising organ availability, said Connie L. Davis, who chairs the panel working on the policy. "People don't realize how complicated the scheduling and logistics can be for donors who are stepping forward out of the true goodness of their heart." Dr. Davis said.

Sander Florman, director of the transplant program at Mount Sinai, said the hospital will test its donors as close to transplant as possible in accordance with the new recommendations, and educate donors "to be very careful about any risky behaviors and report them to us confidentially" before donating an organ.

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The Korean won, attempting a rebound from a three-day losing streak, started stronger but then slipped back to be marginally up. The won was quoted at 1,125.10/40 per dollar.

South Korean shares staged a tepid rally after initial small losses with the index .KS11 up 0.16 percent by 0118 GMT. Australian shares .AXJO were down just 0.55 percent, a tad weaker than their open and Taiwan and Hong Kong both posted small losses.

"While the quake, tsunami and nuclear power crisis in Japan are bad news from global investment perspective, investors are taking a relative and comparative approach on South Korea at this time," said Lee Jun-hyuck, senior fund manager at Dongbu Asset Management in Seoul.

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In Tokyo, the broad TOPIX index plunged nearly 7 percent .TOPX to below 790, the lowest since April 2009, after posting the biggest decline since the 2008 financial crisis on Monday on record volume.

The blue-chip Nikkei index dropped 6.4 percent .N225 to just below 9,000, driven down by selling in the futures market.

"All focus is on the nuclear crisis. In the situation where the crisis appears to be worsening, foreign investors, domestic fund operators are pulling out from Japanese shares," Hideyuki Ishiguro, a supervisor at Okasan Securities in Tokyo.

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Oil rebounded from lows triggered by Japan's earthquake due to unrest in the Middle East as Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain to help quell unrest.

U.S. crude for April edged up 11 cents to $101.30 a barrel by 0035 GMT, after recovering on Monday from a nadir of $98.47, the lowest intraday price since March 1 while Brent crude futures for April delivery fell 14 cents to $113.53 a barrel.

The Japanese yen was steady at around 81.80 as the Bank of Japan on Tuesday offered to pump 5 trillion yen ($61 billion) into the banking system, continuing its huge fund injection aimed at easing market jitters amid escalating damage from the earthquake.

Shares in Australia took a hit from the country's uranium miners, although many stocks rallied off their lows to post small losses. Paladin (PDN.AX) shares were down just 0.23 percent at 0129GMT having opened 3.8 percent lower, while Energy Resources of Australia (ERA.AX), a unit of global miner Rio Tinto (RIO.AX) (RIO.L) fell 1.82 percent, extending early losses.

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NFL Players Association cleared the way in 2011

Despite 16 days of negotiations with a federal mediator — and previous months of stop-and-start bargaining — the sides could not agree on a new deal. The league said it hadn't decided whether to lock out the players, who, meanwhile, went to court to request an injunction to block such a move.

"The parties have not achieved an overall agreement, nor have they been able to resolve the strongly held competing positions that separated them on core issues," mediator George Cohen said. "No useful purpose would be served by requesting the parties to continue the mediation process at this time."

By dissolving and announcing it no longer represents the players in collective bargaining, the NFL Players Association cleared the way for class-action lawsuits against the NFL, which opted out of the CBA in 2008. The antitrust suit attacked the NFL's policies on the draft, salary cap and free-agent restrictions such as franchise-player tags.

The CBA originally was due to expire last week, then was extended twice, in hopes that the sides could find common ground on the key issues: how to divide more than $9 billion in annual revenues, and how much financial information the league would be willing to turn over.

In the end, it appeared the sides were about $185 million per year apart on how much money owners would get up front during the new collective bargaining agreement — well down from the $1 billion that separated them for so long. The union refused to budge any further without getting detailed financial information for each team.

"I would dare any one of you to pull out any economic indicator that would suggest that the National Football League is falling on hard times," NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said. "The last 14 days, the National Football League has said, 'Trust us.' But when it came time for verification, they told us it was none of our business."

It all set the stage for a lengthy court fight that eventually could threaten the 2011 season for a league whose past two Super Bowls rank as the two most-watched programs in U.S. television history. The last time NFL games were lost to a work stoppage came when the players struck 24 years ago, leading to games with replacement players.

Even though the NFL is early in its offseason — and the regular season is six months away — this is hardly a complete down time. Free agency usually begins in March, and there are hundreds of free agents now in limbo. Also this month, under a regular schedule, offseason workouts would start, and the owners meet to establish rules changes.

Plus, March and early April are when many sponsors and corporate partners renew their deals with the NFL, part of why the league says hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue are going to be lost now.

"This obviously is a very disappointing day for all of us. I've been here for the better part of two weeks now, and essentially ... the union's position on the core economic issues has not changed one iota," New York Giants owner John Mara said. "One thing that became painfully apparent to me during this period was that their objective was to go the litigation route."

The NFLPA also decertified in 2011. Antitrust lawsuits by players led to a new CBA in 1993 that included free agency, and the union formed again that year.

The sides met from 10 a.m. until about 4 p.m. Friday, discussing a new proposal by the owners. When the possibility of another extension was raised, the union said it first wanted assurances it would get 10 years of audited financial information.

"I will tell you this: Any business where two partners don't trust each other, any business where one party says, 'You need to do X, Y and Z because I told you,' is a business that is not only not run well, it is a business that can never be as successful as it can be," Smith said.

At 4:45 p.m., Smith and the union's negotiators left. About 15 minutes later, the union decertified.

"No one is happy where we are now," NFL lead negotiator Jeff Pash said. "I think we know where the commitment was. It was a commitment to litigate all along."

A league statement added: "The union left a very good deal on the table."

The public acrimony that arose Thursday night seeped into Friday.

After Pash spoke, outside union lawyer Jim Quinn said: "I hate to say this, but he has not told the truth to our players or our fans. He has, in a word, lied to them about what happened today and what's happened over the last two weeks and the last two years."

The NFL said its offer included splitting the difference in the dispute over how much money owners should be given off the top of the league's revenues. Under the expiring CBA, the owners immediately got about $1 billion before dividing the remainder of revenues with the players; the owners entered negotiations seeking to roughly double that by getting an additional $1 billion up front.

But the owners reduced that eventually to about $650 million. Then, on Friday, they offered to drop that to about $325 million. Smith said the union offered during talks to give up $550 million over the first four years of a new agreement — or an average of $137.5 million.

"We worked hard," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who was joined at mediation on Thursday and Friday by nine of the 10 members of the owners' powerful labor committee. "We didn't reach an agreement, obviously. As you know, the union walked away from the mediation process."

Also in the NFL's offer, according to the league:

— Maintaining the 16 regular-season games and four preseason games for at least two years, with any switch to 18 games down the road being negotiable.

— Instituting a rookie wage scale through which money saved would be paid to veterans and retired players.

— Creating new year-round health and safety rules.

— Establishing a fund for retired players, with $82 million contributed by the owners over the next two years.

— Financial disclosure of audited league and club profitability information that is not even shared with the NFL clubs. That was proposed by the NFL this week, and rejected by the union, which began insisting in May 2011 for a complete look at the books of all 32 clubs.

As Pash outlined each element of the owners' last offer, he ended with the phrase: "Evidently not good enough."

When Goodell, Pash, Mara and owners Jerry Jones of the Cowboys and Jerry Richardson of the Panthers emerged from Cohen's office shortly after 5 p.m., they sounded hopeful negotiations would soon resume.

"We're discouraged, we're frustrated, we're disappointed, but we are not giving up. We know that this will be resolved in the negotiation process," Pash said. "We will be prepared to come back here any time the union is ready to come back here."

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“When the Saudi Arabia story broke, shorts got scared out of the market,” said Richard Ilczyszyn, a market strategist at Lind-Waldock, a broker in Chicago. “The bad economic data probably led you to believe that growth is not as good as expected.”

In other markets, corn, wheat and rice futures fell after the U.S. said global grain inventories will be higher than expected in February. Orange juice also declined. The UBS Bloomberg Constant Maturity Commodity Index dropped 1.2 percent to 1,736.97. The gauge slid for the fourth straight day, the longest slump since late August.

Oil futures for April delivery declined $1.68, or 1.6 percent, to settle at $102.70 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The most-active contract traded at $101.50 before reports of the gunfire.

Brent futures for April settlement slipped 51 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $115.43 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe in London. Earlier, the price slumped as much as 2.1 percent.

Grains Drop

Corn futures for May delivery fell 18.25 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $6.8275 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. The price dropped for the fifth straight session, the longest slump since November.

Bigger corn production than forecast in Brazil and more wheat expected from Argentina and Australia led the U.S. 2011 summer fashion shop Department of Agriculture to boost forecasts for global inventories before harvests this year in the Northern Hemisphere. World rice stockpiles will be 5.3 percent larger than estimated in February.

Tighter supplies amid rising demand helped fuel a rally in crop prices in the past year, as corn, wheat and rice jumped last month to the highest levels since 2008. The gains boosted global food prices to a record in February after surging 25 percent last year, according to the United Nations.

“Production numbers out of some foreign countries are starting to pick up, and in the U.S., there was a slowdown with some export business being shifted to other countries,” said Brian Hoops, the president of Midwest Market Solutions in Yankton, South Dakota. “It probably puts less pressure on the U.S. to produce a big corn crop and a big wheat crop, although it’s still early in the season.”

Wheat futures for May delivery declined 18.25 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $7.405 a bushel, capping an 11 percent plunge in four days.

Rice futures for May delivery plunged by the exchange limit of 50 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $13.05 per 100 pounds, the lowest since Nov. 17.

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World oil prices shot higher lastr night, striking 2.5 year highs on the turmoil in Libya and the Middle East, analysts said.

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