World IN BRIEF : MYANMAR : Random Tests Find 300 AIDS Carriers
From Times staff and Wire reports
More than 300 people in Myanmar, formerly Burma, have tested positive for the AIDS virus, the government said in its first report about the disease. The Health Department began blood tests in 1985 and found the first carrier of the AIDS virus in 1988, according to government spokesmen. They also said that as of December, 1989, 324 of the 25,701 people randomly tested were carriers of the virus. Most of the carriers were drug addicts, the spokesmen added.
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