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TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1991
ONE MORE AIDS CASE CONFIRMED
SYNDROME)
ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY HAS BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO 47.
ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (TUESDAY), A SPOKESMAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID ONE OF THE AIDS PATIENTS WHO WAS TO BE SUFFERING FROM THE DISEASE EARLIER DIED IN MARCH.
FOR THE
CONFIRMED
SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 33 AIDS PATIENTS HAD PASSED AWAY WHILE 14 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE TERRITORY.
LEFT THE
RELEASING THE MONTHLY STATISTICS ON AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR MARCH, THE SPOKESMAN SAID FIVE MORE MEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING TO 173 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAVE NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS.
THE INFECTION THE INFECTION
OF THESE, 55 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 97 ACQUIRED SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER 14 WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 189,570 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS TRANSFUSION SERVICE HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
UP TO MARCH, 870,554 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 15 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
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