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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1990

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ONE MORE AIDS CASE CONFIRMED

(ACQUIRED

IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN SEPTEMBER, BRINGING THE CASES IN HONG KONG TO 42, A SPOKESMAN FOR ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY).

ACQUIRED THE

THE NEW PATIENT HAD

DISEASE SEXUALLY. HE WAS PREVIOUSLY FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTI-BODY TEST.

SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 29 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY

HAVE OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR KONG.

WHILE 13 LEFT HONG

MONTHLY

SURVEILLANCE MORE MEN

THE STATISTICS ON

AIDS RELEASING THE PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, THE SPOKESMAN SAID THREE WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTI-BODY TEST.

THEM, WHO

TWO OF THEY ALL ACQUIRED THE DISEASE SEXUALLY AND WERE LATER REPORTED AS AIDS CASES HAD DIED IN THE SAME MONTH.

HAVE NOT YET

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO

150 AT THE AIDS REMAINED AT

END OF AUGUST. HAEMOPHILIACS, 78 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION SEXUALLY, ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THE INFECTION THROUGH

OF

DEVELOPED 54 WERE THESE, FOUR WERE DRUG BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER 11 WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME STARTED IN 1985, A OF 168,774 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

TOTAL

SERVICE HAS

ALSO

UP TO LAST MONTH, 768,846 UNITS OF BLOOD WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

WERE TESTED AND 13

/AIDS VIRUS

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