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United Press International - November 22, 2006
Health officials said the number of cases of human immunodeficiency virus grew from 144,089 at the end of last year to 183,733 this year, China Daily reported Wednesday. A total 40,667 of those cases had progressed into AIDS this year.
The officials said the rising number is in part due to increased reporting of existing cases but the virus also appears to be spreading.
U.N. and China officials estimated in December 2005 that approximately 650,000 people in the country carry HIV and Hao Yang, deputy director of the Ministry of Health's Disease Control Bureau, said Tuesday that 12,464 people had died as a result of the illness as of Oct. 31.
Hao said the leading causes of the virus' spread were drug abuse, which accounted for 37 percent of cases, and unsafe sexual contact, which caused 28 percent.
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