AIDS Becomes China's Deadliest Infectious Disease

David Goodhue - AHN Reporter
Miami, FL (AHN) - AIDS has become China's deadliest infectious disease with nearly 7,000 people dying of the disease in the first nine months of last year.

AIDS was the third deadliest disease in China, but it has overtaken tuberculosis and rabies as the country's top killer in2008, according to the country's health ministry.

According to the health ministry's report, 34,864 people have died from AIDS since it was first detected in China in the 1980s. About 264,302 people in the country are infected with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.

But some experts say those numbers are vastly underestimated.

The UN Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS estimates the real number of people in China living with HIV is about 700,000.

what is stopping them from coming to singapore and spreading to sinkie men and then to sinkie women.

singveld said:

what is stopping them from coming to singapore and spreading to sinkie men and then to sinkie women.

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stopped? i tot they were given social visit passes freely?

SAR and Flu also hit them.
Country too big,difficult to control even though they are communist.

VIBGYOR said:

The UN Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS estimates the real number of people in China living with HIV is about 700,000.

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For a population of 1 billion, 700,000 is 0.07%. seems to be grossly underestimated.

BlueCat said:

SAR and Flu also hit them.
Country too big,difficult to control even though they are communist.

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If they are better communists, they can say that there is no SAR, FLU or AIDS in China. Chinaman are very healthy.

haha...china milk got melamine, china gways got AIDS...i ask you scared boh....