TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1988
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TWO NEW AIDS CASES REPORTED
TWO NEW CASES OF AIDS
HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
(ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
SYNDROME)
ONE OF THE PATIENTS HAS DIED UNDER TREATMENT.
THE WHILE
OTHER ONE IS STILL
THE DECEASED WAS A CHINESE MAN WHO WAS A NEW
ARRIVAL IN HONG
KONG.
LATEST
STATISTICS
ON
THE
WERE DISEASE
RELEASED
BY
THE
DEPARTMENT TODAY (TUESDAY).
CONFIRMED AIDS PATIENTS SO FAR, HONG KONG HAS REPORTED 12
AND ARE UNDER ONE FEMALE AND 11 MALES. TWO OF THE PATIENTS SURVIVE, TREATMENT.
THE MAJORITY OF THE PATIENTS HAD SEXUALLY ACQUIRED THE DISEASE. SEVEN WERE IDENTIFIED AS NON-CHINESE.
INFECTED
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST STATISTICS UNDER THE AIDS PROGRAMME, POUR MORE PERSONS WERE FOUND TO BE VIRUS IN JANUARY.
SURVEILLANCE BY THE AIDS
HAVE BEEN TESTED NEARLY HALF
SINCE APRIL 1985, A TOTAL OF 79,936 PERSONS FOR THE AIDS ANTIBODY AND 110 WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED. OF THE INFECTED PERSONS ARE HARMOPHILIACS,
THE MEDICAL THE DISEASE ΓΝ HONG
THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME IS CARRIED OUT BY AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR THE SPREAD OF KONG.
THE HIGH RISK HAEMOPILILIACS,
GROUPS TESTED FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY INCLUDE
ABUSERS DRUG
AND SEXUALLY PROMISCUOUS
INTRAVENKOUS
PROPLE.
DURING JANUARY,
THE
SERVICE
SCREENED 13,297
HONG KONG RED
UNITS OF
CROSS BLOOD DONATED BLOOD AND
ALL
TRANSFUSTON SHOWED
NEGATIVE RESULTS.