The World - News from July 30, 1985
China announced a quarantine to prevent the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome after a tourist died of the disease, the first AIDS case reported in China. A Public Health Ministry report said that Oscar Messina, 34, an Argentine citizen living in the United States, died June 6 in Peking. It said Messina’s family reported he had been diagnosed as having AIDS in the United States and that he had “contacted many people and contaminated a large area” during his 10-day visit.
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