henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch) (11/17/90)
in an article spotted on the new york times wire service, chinese authorities have reported that nearly 400 people in southwestern china are infected by the AIDS virus. this is the first official admission that the epidemic, once blamed primarily on foreigners, is now spreading in rural areas of the people's republic of china. approximately 3 percent of 15,000 people tested at drug treatment programs and venereal disease clinics in yunnan province tested positive for the virus. # Henry Mensch / <henry@garp.mit.edu> / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # <hmensch@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay> / <henry@tts.lth.se> / <mensch@munnari.oz.au> # via X.400: S=mensch; OU=informatik; P=tu-muenchen; A=dbp; C=de