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NATION IN BRIEF : WEST VIRGINIA : Patients to Be Told Surgeon Has AIDS

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

More than 400 patients will be notified that their heart surgeon tested positive for the AIDS virus, officials said in Morgantown, W. Va. Dr. Grady Edward Rozar Jr. was diagnosed with the virus in 1989. He operated on about 400 patients in West Virginia from August, 1986, to November, 1988, at Monongahela and West Virginia University Hospitals. Rozar is now director of a laboratory near St. Paul, Minn.

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