AIDS Up 28% in Europe in 1st Half of 1992
AIDS is spreading quickly in Europe, and claims that the growth of the killer disease has been slowed in developed countries are misleading, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
The U.N. agency’s director for France, Jean-Baptiste Brunet, told the European Parliament-sponsored conference that the number of confirmed AIDS cases in Europe rose by 28% in the first six months of 1992 from the same period last year.
Brunet said acquired immune deficiency syndrome is spreading quickly among African immigrants in Europe, a phenomenon he said is being hushed up.
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