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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1987
TWO MORE AIDS CASES
DEPARTMENT
TODAY
(TUESDAY) ANNOUNCED BYNDROME) CASES,
THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH TWO MORE CONFIRMED AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO EIGHT.
OF THE EIGHT AIDS PATIENTS, SEVEN HAD DIED
AND ONE IS STILL
ALIVE.
THE EIGHT CASES ARE ALL ADULTS AND HALF OF THEM ARE CHINESE.
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SEVEN MALES AND ONE
FEMALE
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REGARDING THE RISK FACTORS OF THE RIGHT PATIENTS, SIX WERE SEXUALLY ACQUIRED AND TWO WERE UNKNOWN.
ANNOUNCING
THE
LATEST
MONTHLY
STATISTICS
OF THEM
ON THE AIDS PERSONS
BURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME, A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID FOUR MORE WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY THE DEADLY VIRUS IN SEPTEMBER.
VIRUS TO DATE, 104 PERSONS WERE REPORTED TO BE INFECTED BY THE
PATIENTS AND 50 IN HONG KONG, THESE INCLUDE THE RIGHT CONFIRMED AIDS HAEMOPHILIACS.
3.647 PERSONS WERE DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, A TOTAL OF
FOUR OF THEM WERB FOUND TO BE TESTED FOR THE HIV ANTIBODIES AND
TWO
BY PERSONS, FOUR POSITIVE
WERE REFERRED POSITIVE. AMONG THE
ONE GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, ONE BY PRIVATE PRACTITIONER AND WAS A HAEMOPHILIAC.
AT RISK UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME, GROUPS WHO ARE
SEXUALLY OF BEING INFECTED ARE TESTED FOR THE INFECTION. THEY INCLUDE
PATIENTS AND INTRAVENOUS AND PROMISCUOUS PERSONS, MULTI-TRANSFUSED DRUG ABUSERS.
SINCE APRIL 1985, A TOTAL OF 87,256
UNIT OF THE VIRUS THE HIV ANTIBODIES BY DEPARTMENT.
PERSONS WERE TESTED FOR THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH
BLOOD
RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION AT THE SAME TIME, THE HONG KONG SERVICE HAS ALSO CARRIED OUT A MASS SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR ALL DONORS SINCE AUGUST 1985. UP TO NOW, A TOTAL OF 310,106 DONATED UNITS HAVE BEEN TESTED AND FIVE WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY THE VIRUS.
AIDS
LAST MONTH, 14,678 UNITS OF BLOOD FOUND TO BE POSITIVE.
WERE
TESTED AND NONE WAS
MBANWHILE, THE AIDS COUNSELLING
THAT CALLS FROM PROPLE DISEASE.
WHO FEAR
CLINIC THEY MIGHT
CONTINUES TO RECEIVE THE HAVE CONTRACTED
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IN SEPTEMBER, 1,909 CALLS WERE TO NUMBER OF CALLS RECEIVED 30 FAR CLINIC WAS INTRODUCED IN NOVEMBER 1985.
17,289 SINCE THE COUNSELLING
BRINGING RECEIVED,
THE
TOTAL
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