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Lisa MacDowell | Thursday, October 1, 2009 |
Every 9 1/2 minutes, someone in the United States is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A startling fact presented by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). CDC arrived at the 9½ minutes figure by dividing the number of minutes in one year by the 56,300 new HIV infections that were estimated for 2006. This result indicates that, on average, one new HIV infection occurs every 9.34 minutes in a year. While many people believe the AIDS epidemic is no longer a public health issue in the...