Local doctor going on 30+ years with HIV

CASSADAGA, N.Y. (WIVB)- Dr. Neal Rzepkowski is a picture of perfect health. At 64, the Dunkirk native has a busy schedule seeing patients, but makes time to tend to his greenhouse, where he grows papayas.
He even built his Cassadaga home, with his bare hands.
So it might surprise some that he’s HIV positive, and has been for more than 30 years.
“I probably picked it up in 1982-81, or even before, either through not using gloves with my patients who turned out to have AIDS, or by