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The Associated Press - Friday, November 3, 1989
Jonathan Mann, director of WHO's AIDS program, said the number of AIDS cases worldwide, now believed to be about 600,000, is expected to approach 6 million by the turn of the century.
The number infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS but often lies dormant for years before symptoms appear, is estimated at between 6 million and 8 million worldwide and is projected to double or triple during the 1990s, he told the National Commission on AIDS.
"Despite all efforts . . . dangerous complacency about AIDS is spreading," he told the panel.
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