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In a story Tuesday about the estimated more than a million Americans living with the virus that causes AIDS, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of HIV cases in the mid-1980s. There were an estimated 550,000 to 650,000 HIV cases in 1986, not 1.2 million, said Terry…
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In a story Tuesday about the estimated more than a million Americans living with the virus that causes AIDS, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of HIV cases in the mid-1980s. There were an estimated 550,000 to 650,000 HIV cases in 1986, not 1.2 million, said Terry Butler, spokeswoman with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.


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