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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1989
TWO MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED
TWO MORE PERSONS IN HONG KONG WERE CONFIRMED ΤΟ BE SUFFERING FROM ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS), THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (WEDNESDAY}.
THIS BRINGS TO 32 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES то DATE. OF THESE PATIENTS, 17 HAVE PASSED AWAY WHILE THE OTHER 15 ARE RECEIVING COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT.
ONE OF THE TWO (BOTH MALE) WAS AN INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSER WHILE THE OTHER WAS A HAEMOPHILIAC.
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RELEASING THE MONTHLY STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID MORE PERSONS WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST.
THE FIGURE BRINGS TO 166 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS WHO WERE INFECTED BY THE AIDS VIRUS.
OF THE 166 CARRIERS, 55 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, ONE WAS AN INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSER, 18 WERE PERSONS WHO ATTENDED SOCIAL HYGIENE CLINICS, 53 WERE PATIENTS FROM GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND CLINICS AND 39 WERE REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE DOCTORS AND SUBVENTED ORGANISATIONS.
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME STARTED IN 1985 A TOTAL OF 145,594 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.
MEANWHILE, THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
UP TO NOVEMBER, A TOTAL OF 646,051 UNITS TESTED AND 10 WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE.
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/AIDS VIRUS