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The Associated Press - Sunday, December 08, 1996 08:52:00 PM.
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FIRST CASE: First officially reported AIDS case was in 1985, a Japanese homosexual who contracted AIDS virus in United States. By that time, two Japanese hemophiliacs were thought to have already died of AIDS, however.
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CURRENT PROBLEM: According to government figures, 3,748 people in Japan suffered full-blown AIDS or carried AIDS virus as of September; 821 have died. A record 129 new cases of AIDS infection were reported for July-August, most recent period for which statistics available.
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HEMOPHILIA-HIV CASES: Of roughly 4,500 hemophiliacs in Japan, as many as 2,000 -- almost 45 percent -- are believed to have been infected with AIDS virus by tainted blood transfusions in early 1980s. Nearly 400 have died.
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