TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1991
ONE MORE AIDS CASE CONFIRMED
ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) HAS BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO 45.
ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (TUESDAY), A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID THE NEW AIDS PATIENT DIED SOON AFTER HE WAS FOUND TO BE INFECTED IN DECEMBER.
HIS DEATH BROUGHT TO 31 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PATIENTS WHO HAD PASSED AWAY. THE OTHER 14 PATIENTS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT HONG KONG.
RELEASING THE STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR DECEMBER 1990, THE SPOKESMAN SAID FOUR OTHER PEOPLE WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING то 161 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAVE NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS.
OF THESE, 55 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 86 ACQUIRED SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AND THE INFORMATION FOR OTHER INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION,
THE INFECTION THE INFECTION THE 13 WAS
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME STARTED IN 1995, A TOTAL OF 181,193 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD
SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
TRANSFUSION
SERVICE HAS ALSO
UP TO LAST MONTH, 826,656 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 14 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
/AIDS VIRUS
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