TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1988
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ONE MORE AIDS CASE CONFIRMED
DEPARTMENT TODAY (TUESDAY) THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME).
THE PATIENT, A NON-CHINESE MAN, DIED LAST WEEK. HE ARRIVAL IN HONG KONG AND HAD SEXUALLY ACQUIRED THE DISEASE.
CONFIRMED
WAS A NEW
THE MAN WAS THE NINTH PERSON TO DIE IN HONG KONG FROM AIDS.
ANOTHER PERSON 18 STILL UNDER TREATMENT.
AIDS CASE A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT NOTED THAT THE FIRST
1985 AND TWO MORE CASES IN THE TERRITORY WAS REPORTED IN FEBRUARY WERE CONFIRMED THAT YEAR.
WERE
CHINESE
AND ONE WAS
TWO PATIENTS, THREE OF THOSE NON-CHINESE, AND ALL DIED BEFORE THE YEAR ENDED.
NO VICTIMS WERE CLAIMED BY THE DISEASE IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES ROSE BY SIX. ONE OF FEMALE, FOR THE FIRST TIME.
FIVE OF THE PATIENTS DIED WITHIN THE YEAR.
1986, BUT IN 1987 THE CASES WAS A
OPERATING A SURVEILLANCE
SINCE 1985, THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN PROGRAMME ON AIDS TO MONITOR THE SPREAD OF THE DISEASE IN HONG KONG.
TESTED FOR INTRAVENOUS DRUG
UNDER THIS PROGRAMME, CERTAIN HIGH RISK GROUPS ARE
HAEMOPHILIACS, THESE INCLUDE ANTIBODY.
HIV
THE ADDICTS AND SEXUALLY PROMISCUOUS PEOPLE.
ΤΟ ACCORDING
THE
LATEST
AIDS STATISTICS MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UP TO THE END DECEMBER OF 76,976 PERSONS WERE TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS AND THE 10TH PATIENT) OF THEM SHOWED A POSITIVE RESULT.
RELEASED BY THE 1987, A TOTAL 106 (EXCLUDING
DURING THE
SAME
PERIOD,
THE HONG KONG
RED
CROSS
TRANSFUSION SERVICE SCREENED 349,287 UNITS OF DONATED BLOOD WITH UNITS SHOWING A POSITIVE RESULT.
BLOOD FIVE
NO NEW CARRIER WAS DETECTED LAST MONTH.
MONTHS, NO ONE IN HONG
THIS MEANS THAT FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE KONG WAS FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY THE AIDS VIRUS.
MEDICAL AND 2,914
THE NUMBERS OF PERSONS TESTED BY THE VIRUS UNIT OF THE AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WERE 3,335 RESPECTIVELY.
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