Tests confirm Cambodia HIV mass infection - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English: "Battambang, Cambodia - A third round of tests has confirmed that at least 90 villagers in a small rural community in northwest Cambodia have contracted HIV in an unexplained and panic-inducing mass infection.
Dr Didier Fontenille, director of the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, said that samples sent from Roka commune in Battambang province, where the unusually high number of infections were first detected this month, have tested positive for the virus.
"It has been confirmed three times by different techniques. Around 90 [people] have tested positive," Fontenille said.
More samples taken from residents in the area will be tested on Saturday, he said.
On Saturday afternoon, members of a parliamentary commission on public health attempted to address the concerns of the villagers in the northwest of the country."
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
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