The Brooklyn bus driver stabbed by a deranged passenger with a syringe last week was considering starting a family before the attack — but now fears he has HIV.
Markanthony Salandy, who was driving the B68, said doctors told him it will take at least six months to see if he was infected.
“It’s stressful,” Salandy, 30, said. “Not only for me, but my family. HIV and hepatitis are the big worry.”
Salandy, who is engaged to be married, spoke at a Transport Workers Union 100 rally yesterday to demand more safety measures for MTA bus drivers, such as installing partitions to shield them.
An MTA spokesman said, “Any attack on a bus operator is an attack on all of us at the MTA, and Chairman [Joseph] Lhota has been working on addressing this literally since his first day on the job.”