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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 17, 1992                   TAG: 9201170222
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short

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AIDS EPIDEMIC NOW 200,000 CASES STRONG

The nation's AIDS epidemic has reached another grim milestone: 200,000 cases, with the second 100,000 coming four times as quickly as the first.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday that the nation's AIDS count now stands at 206,392 cases, with 133,232 deaths. It was August 1989, eight years into the epidemic, when the 100,000th case was reported; the next 100,000 cases took just 26 months, the CDC said.

"The cumulative total . . . emphasizes the rapidly increasing magnitude of the HIV epidemic," the CDC said in its report. - Associated Press

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