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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1991

DEATHS IN THE MANUFACTURING AND OTHER INDUSTRIES WERE CAUSED BY MACHINERY (FIVE CASES), STEPPING ON OR STRUCK BY OBJECTS (FOUR CASES), ELECTRICITY (THREE CASES), TRANSPORT (ONE CASE), EXPLOSION FIRE (ONE CASE), FALL FROM A HEIGHT (ONE CASE) AND FALLING OBJECTS

(ONE CASE).

OR

MR YIP URGED PROPRIETORS AND WORKERS TO KEEP UP THEIR EFFORTS IN ENSURING SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE AS MOST OF THF ACCIDENTS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED HAD BOTH PARTIES BERN MORF SAFETY-CONSCIOUS.

ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS CONFIRMED

ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) HAS BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO 58, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY),

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SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 39 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE DIED AND 19 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT THE TERRITORY.

RELEASING THE STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR OCTOBER, THE SPOKESMAN SAID TWO MORE PERSONS, INCLUDING A WOMAN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING TO 193 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAD NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS.

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OF THESE, 51 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 120 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS, THREE ACQUIRED THE INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FOR THE REMAINING AVAILABLE WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

15, THE INFORMATION

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 210,598 BLOOD SPECIMEN HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.

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

SERVICE HAS. ALSO

UP TO LAST MONTH, 972,853 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD 17 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

BEEN TESTED AND

/AIDS VIRUS