Man suspected of deliberately spreading HIV virus  

臺(tái)灣中年艾滋男子蓄意傳染10人 不乏未成年人

據(jù)臺(tái)灣《中國(guó)時(shí)報(bào)》報(bào)道，因不安全性行為，臺(tái)灣南部一名中年男性疑似連續(xù)將抗藥性艾滋病毒傳染給近10名年輕男性，其中不乏未成年青少年。收治個(gè)案的臺(tái)灣成大醫(yī)院指出，針對(duì)這名中年男性是否明知自己感染艾滋病毒，卻蓄意傳染他人，院方正配合當(dāng)?shù)貦z警搜證調(diào)查中。[查看全文]

(ECNS) – A middle-aged man in southern Taiwan was suspected of spreading a drug-resistant HIV virus through unprotected sex with some 10 young men, according to China Times.

Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University Hospital said they are helping local police investigate whether the man deliberately spread the virus after he learned about his infection.

The hospital discovered the case through a sequence alignment of HIV virus gene in research. The infected victims were all young men, and some are minors, according to the hospital.

The middle-aged man refuses to receive treatment, and the hospital is trying to persuade him.

A staffer at the hospital said the virus is resistant to NNRTI, a kind of medicine for first-line treatment.

Taiwan's Center for Disease Control said on Monday that 18 percent of HIV-positive people on the island carry the drug-resistant virus this year, much higher than the 5.1 percent of 2007-2012. That means the treatment of AIDS patients will be more difficult and the risks of infection will increase, the center said.