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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1991

ONE MORE AIDS CASE CONFIRMED

ONE MORE CASE OF AIDS {ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) HAS BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO 59, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).

SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 39 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE DIED AND 20 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT THE TERRITORY.

RELEASING THE STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR NOVEMBER, THE SPOKESMAN SAID 11 MORE PERSONS, ALL MEN, WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING TO 203 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAD NOT YET. DEVELOPED AIDS.

OF THESE, 51 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS,

129 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION

ACQUIRED THE INFECTION.

SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS, AND THREE THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION, HE SAID.

FOR THE REMAINING 16, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WAS INADEQUATE

FOR CLASSIFICATION, THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, TOTAL OF 218,196 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, 992,410 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD 17 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

BEEN TESTED AND

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