TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1991
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NO NEW AIDS CASE SO FAR IN FEBRUARY
SYNDROME)
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY CASES IN HONG KONG REMAINS AT 45 ΤΟ DATE, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 31 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY WHILE 14 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT HONG KONG.
RELEASING THE MONTHLY STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, THE SPOKESMAN SAID FIVE MORE MEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING TO 166 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAVE NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS.
OF THESE, 55 WERE HARMOPHILIACS, 91 ACQUIRED SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AND THE INFORMATION FOR THE INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.
THE INFECTION THE INFECTION OTHER 13 WAS
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME STARTED IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 184,569 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, 841,945 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED 14 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
AND
/AIDS VIRUS