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TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1990

THREE MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED

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THREE MORE MEN IN HONG KONG

FROM ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY).

THIS BRINGS TO 36 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF

PATIENTS HAVE PASSED CASES TO DATE. TWENTY OF THE OTHER 16 ARE RECEIVING COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT.

WERE

CONFIRMED TO BE SUFFERING (AIDS), THE DEPARTMENT

OF

AIDS CONFIRMED

AWAY, AND THE

TWO OF THE LATEST VICTIMS ACQUIRED THE DISEASE THE OTHER IS A HAEMOPHILIAC.

SEXUALLY WHILE

MEANWHILE, ONE OF THE AIDS PATIENTS WHO SUFFERING FROM THE DISEASE EARLIER, HAD DIED.

RELEASING THE

WAS

CONFIRMED

ΤΟ

BE

MONTHLY STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR FEBRUARY, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID ONE MORE MAN WAS FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY ACQUIRED THE INFECTION SEXUALLY.

TEST. HE HAD

HAVE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO

NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS REMAIN AT 140. OF THESE, 52 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 71 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION SEXUALLY,

WERE DRUG USERS, THREE

THREE ACQUIRED INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION FOR THE 11 WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

THE OTHER

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, TOTAL OF 152,614 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS

BLOOD

SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

TRANSFUSION

A

SERVICE HAS

ALSO

UP TO LAST MONTH, 685,656 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD 10 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

BEEN TESTED AND

/AIDS VIRUS