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Fearing AIDS, Army Rejects 400 Recruits

The New York Times - February 1, 1986

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 - The Army has rejected about 400 recruits because tests indicated they had been exposed to the virus that sometimes causes AIDS, an Army officer says.

The officer, Lieut. Col. Gary Quay, assigned to oversee the new blood screening program for the Army, said Friday that the 400 had been rejected out of 270,000 recruits tested from Oct. 15 to Jan. 17.

Colonel Quay said the Army planned to start testing active-duty soldiers in February, initially at the rate of about 25,000 soldiers a month.


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