“US says it understated number of new HIV infections each year, raises estimate to 56,000.
      The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.
      The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 – about a 40 percent increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the past dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.
      But it likely will refocus U.S. attention from the effect of AIDS overseas to what the disease is doing to this country, said public health researchers and officials.”
Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer, August 3, 2008.

Follow this link to see restated CDC infection statistics.

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