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TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1990

THREE MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED

THREE MORE MEN IN HONG KONG WERE CONFIRMED TO BE SUFFERING FROM AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME), THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY).

DATE.

THIS BRINGS TO 41 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES TO

ALL THE NEW PATIENTS ACQUIRED THE DISEASE SEXUALLY, TWO OF THEM DIED SHORTLY AFTER THEY HAD BEEN CONFIRMED TO BE SUFFERING FROM THE DISEASE.

SO FAR,

A TOTAL OF 29 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY WHILE 12 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT HONG KONG.

DEPARTMENT SAID ANTI-BODY TEST.

RELEASING THE MONTHLY STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE

THE TWO MORE MEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR ONE OF THE MEN HAD DEVELOPED AIDS IN AUGUST.

HIV

HAVE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO AIDS WAS 150 AS AT THE END OF JULY.

NOT

YET

DEVELOPED

OF THESE, 54 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 78 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION

WERE SEXUALLY, FOUR

DRUG ABUSERS, THREE

THE ACQUIRED

INFECTION THE OTHER 11 THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION FOR INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

AIDS

WAS

1985,

A

UNDER THE

SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME STARTED IN TOTAL OF 166,136 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR AIDS VIRUS.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

UP TO LAST MONTH, 753,713 UNITS OF BLOOD WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

WERE TESTED AND

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/AIDS VIRUS