Many states have laws explicitly making it a crime to knowingly infect another person with H.I.V., but New York does not.

Later that same year, Monica filed a $52 million lawsuit against the actor for knowingly infecting her with HIV.

Since then, Ms. Nowak has accused her former boyfriend of knowingly infecting her.

The other would make it a capital offense to cause death by knowingly infecting a person with the virus that causes AIDS.

"People who knowingly infect others with this deadly disease are committing murder," Mr. Solomon said when he introduced the bill last month.

It's about the small gangs of predatory men who knowingly infect women by the score without a second thought in the world.

He knowingly infected a child with HIV.

Of course these people have responsibility to warn others; to knowingly infect another human being should be a crime.

It also prompted some legislators to call for a law providing tougher penalties specifically for knowingly infecting someone with H.I.V.