Man suspected of deliberately spreading HIV virus  

台湾中年艾滋男子蓄意传染10人 不乏未成年人

据台湾《中国时报》报道，因不安全性行为，台湾南部一名中年男性疑似连续将抗药性艾滋病毒传染给近10名年轻男性，其中不乏未成年青少年。收治个案的台湾成大医院指出，针对这名中年男性是否明知自己感染艾滋病毒，却蓄意传染他人，院方正配合当地检警搜证调查中。[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.