警告:莱斯特酒吧一HIV病毒男子可能传染数十人

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莱斯特去过Church Gate的After Dark Club和两个St Peter Road的Burlington Club，并且有过sexual contact的女生，被建议赶快去医院检查，是否被传染艾滋病毒（HIV）
据估计，直接被传染人数可能在几十人到上百人，间接的人数更大

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Women who visited two Leicester nightclubs are urged to get an HIV test after a man who frequented the venues is diagnosed with the virus.

[Leicester Mercury 英文报道]
http://www.thisisleicestershire. ... detail/article.html

A mental health patient with HIV has told doctors he may have infected women he met at two nightclubs.
Women who had unprotected sex after visiting After Dark Club, in Churchgate, Leicester – which has now closed – and the Burlington Club, a private club in St Peter's Road, Highfields, are being urged to get tested.
Public health officials said they could not reveal the number of women who may be involved, but the man has told them he visited the clubs between 2002 and 2007.
It is believed the fears only came to light in the past few weeks, after the man – who has tested HIV positive but has not been identified – told doctors.
Dr Philip Monk, a consultant for the Health Protection Agency in the East Midlands, said: "It is important that women who attended these clubs and had an encounter which led to unprotected sexual activity with someone they met that night follow our advice.

Understandably, they are likely to be extremely concerned, but it is important they seek advice as soon as possible.
"It is important for them to be tested so the infection is not being passed on.
"There is also treatment that can enable them to live near-normal healthy and full lives."
The man, who moved to Leicester in 2002, also admitted having sexual relationships with a number of women he met at the Brandon Unit, an adult inpatient mental health centre run by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.
He is being cared for by the NHS outside of Leicestershire.
Managers at the mental health trust said they had been able to identify all patients who may have been exposed.
They said there was no suggestion any of the sexual encounters took place at the unit.
A helpline has been set up for them to call for advice and counselling.
Antony Sheehan, the trust's chief executive, said: "We are confident all the women have been contacted.
"Although a person may have mental health problems, it doesn't mean they cannot take clear decisions on other aspects of their lives.
"There is no suggestion any activity was other than consensual.
"But we are mindful of the potential vulnerability of these women and have taken every step to follow up the letters through teams providing medical help and emotional support."
Anyone who thinks they may be at risk can ring a special NHS Direct number, on 0845 603 0897.
People with concerns can also visit the genitourinary medicine clinic at Leicester Royal Infirmary – which provides a walk-in service each weekday from 9am to noon – or call the sexual health and contraception clinic on 0800 756 6277.

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HIV illegal immigrant 'may have infected more than 400 women'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:31 AM on 14th November 2008
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More than 100 women may be at risk after having unprotected sex with a man with HIV
An illegal immigrant may have infected hundreds of women with HIV in a string of one-night-stands, it has emerged.
The infected Jamaican reveller prowled nightclubs to pick up women and then spent almost a year unchecked in hospital where he looked for sex with vulnerable patients.
Health officials have written to more than 400 women to warn them they might have the deadly virus after having unprotected sex with him.
The immigrant, who arrived in the UK on a visitor's visa in 2002, has admitted he cannot remember how many woman he has slept with.
He told doctors he had sex, which was often unprotected, with women he met in two nightclubs in Leicester - the now-defunct Dark Club and the Burlington Club.
Last December, he was admitted to the Brandon mental health unit at Leicester General Hospital where he slept with fellow patients - possibly even in the unit.
Doctors were told in May that his visa had expired and he was living in the UK illegally but the HIV danger only became known in the last few weeks.
A married patient confessed to sleeping with him, according to the Sun, and he then told medics about his other sexual liaisons.

A source told the paper: 'It's literally panic stations.'

The clubber also had sex with women he met at the Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust building
Dr Philip Monk, a consultant for the Health Protection Agency (HPA) East Midlands, said: 'He doesn't know (the number of women he had unprotected sex with). He was going clubbing very regularly. He didn't have a sexual encounter every time he went out, but it didn't happen infrequently.
'There is a possibility it could be more than 100. We believe it was more than a handful.'
He added: 'We are concerned that there is a risk that the HIV positive individual may have passed on the infection as a result of the sexual activity he has engaged in.
'Understandably, women who have had sexual experiences with someone they met at either of these venues are likely to be extremely concerned, but it's important that they either visit their local genito-urinary medicine clinic or family planning clinic.
'There is also treatment that can enable them to live near-normal healthy and full lives.'  
The HPA confirmed the man, who moved to Leicester in 2002, was not a bouncer at either of the clubs.

A spokesman for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, which runs the Brandon unit, said all the women he slept with from there had been contacted.
He said: 'Although a person may have mental health problems, it doesn't mean they cannot take clear decisions on other aspects of their lives.

'There is no suggestion any activity was other than consensual but we are mindful of the potential vulnerability of these women and have taken every step to follow up the letters through teams providing medical help and emotional support.'

The man is now being cared for by the NHS outside of Leicestershire.
If caught early enough, medical treatment can prevent the HIV virus from developing in to full-blown AIDS, offering patients the chance of a largely-normal life.

HIV infects the white blood cells, which normally protect people from disease. AIDS develops when the immune system becomes too weak to continue fighting the infection.
Patients with HIV typically begin to show symptoms of the infection within five to ten years in around half of all cases.

Initial symptoms are often general conditions such as tiredness, or general ill health, but in advanced cases, patients may display 'AIDS defining' symptoms such as skin tumours or even AIDS-related dementia.
Two years ago, more than a thousand patients were placed on alert after a hospital worker was diagnosed with HIV and hepatitis B.
In the first incident of its kind, the unnamed employee was diagnosed with both blood-borne viruses while working in the NHS.
1,185 patients who had been treated by the worker at five hospitals across the West Midlands and Hampshire faced blood tests to see if they had contracted either disease.
Anyone concerned can contact NHS Direct on 0845 603 0897 where staff have been briefed on the case.

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看到中文版本了，也贴一下吧！

据英国《每日邮报》11月14日报道，一百多名英国女性曾经在莱切斯特酒吧结识同一名艾滋病人，并与他彻夜狂欢，她们都有可能感染上艾滋病毒。

　　在该名酒吧狂欢者透露自己已患上艾滋病后，英国卫生部呼吁广大女性不要与其发生毫无保护的性关系。英国卫生保护局高级咨询师菲利普-蒙克表示，该男子自己也不清楚究竟已和多少女人发生过关系，他经常勾搭新的女人，虽然不是每次出手都能和她们发生性关系，但次数也绝对不少。

我们估计与他发生过性关系的女人总数在100人，甚至更多。” 蒙克说道。他表示，政府目前担心的不仅是这100多名女性，而是她们有可能将艾滋病毒传染给身边更多的人。而且我们知道凡是在该酒吧与异性发生过性关系的人都处于艾滋病危险中，如果他们没能及时去医院就诊，那么结果只能更糟。

　　蒙克说，这些处于危险中的人可以寻找政府帮助。“现在也有治疗办法让他们活的更长点”，“在他们和专业的咨询人员交谈后，我们就知道是否需要为他们做些后续工作了。”

　　这位艾滋男子身份已被曝光，他每周去一次夜总会，且经常与陌生女子在外面过夜。医生们普遍表示，该男子是艾滋病患者，同时也是一名严重精神病患者。

　　蒙克对该名男子表示严厉谴责：“即使是个有精神问题的人，他也应该在面对这种问题时保持清醒头脑，精神问题并不代表他在生活方面完全丧失判断力。”

　　据悉，该酒吧所在地政府日前已联系所有曾在此与异性发生过性关系的人，并要求他们立即去医院进行检查。“我们不会放走任何一个可疑者，因为他们太危险，在这里会有专业的医生及咨询师为其提供服务。”蒙克说道。

　　英国卫生部表示，该男子是在2002年来到莱切斯特的，刚开始他的作案地点并非酒吧，而是前往医院等场所寻找女性。在2002年至2007年间，他在莱切斯特的“黄昏夜总会”及“柏林顿夜总会”与大量女子发生性关系，数量无人知晓。

　　目前，该男子已被英国卫生部门看管。

　　艾滋病是目前无法治愈的疾病，在发病初期，人体会有疲劳及不健康感，到了晚期，就会出现皮肤肿瘤并出现痴呆症。两年前，英国就曾出现一名艾滋病工人造成上千人处于高危状态的案件发生