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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1991
ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS CONFIRMED
ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS (ACQUIRED 1MMUNE DEFICIENCY
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HAS BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO 57, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY
(TUESDAY).
SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 38 AIDS PATIENTS ELAD DIED AND 19 OTHERS WERE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAD LEFT THE TERRITORY.
RELEASING THE STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR SEPTEMBER, THE SPOKESMAN SAID THREE MORE MEN WERF FOUND TO BL POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING TO 191 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAD NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS.
OF THESE, 51 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 118 ACQUIRED SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION FOR THE INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.
THE INFECTION THE INFECTION OTHER 15 WAS
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, TOTAL OF 206,891 BLOOD SPECIMEN HAD BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD
SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
TRANSFUSION SERVICE HAD ALSO
UP TO LAST MONTH, 956,194 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 17 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
/AIDS VIRUS