Indiana reports jump in new HIV cases in rural outbreak
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
(Reuters) - An HIV outbreak in southeastern Indiana related to abuse of intravenous prescription drugs has jumped by 24 cases in the past week, an increase attributed to offering more testing resources, state health officials said on Friday.
The outbreak centered in rural Scott County near the border with Kentucky has reached 130 cases, including 10 preliminary positive tests, up from 106 a week ago, health officials said.
Scott County, about 30 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky, has been the center of the outbreak, the biggest in the state's history.
A needle exchange program started April 4 for Scott County residents has so far distributed 5,322 clean syringes to 86 people and collected 1,400 used syringes, health officials said.
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SoapBox
(18,791 posts)even though the State of Stupid prohibited exchanges...there is more to this story than is in the article.
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)The only testing facility available outside a personal physicians office was at Planned Parenthood.
It was shut down because somewhere in the US PP was doing abortions.
The bumpkin thinking is that protected sex contributes to promiscuity.
Just like needles encourage drug abuse.
Welcome to the 19th century.