VORONEZH, December 15 (RIA Novosti) - Preliminary tests have shown that an 11-year-old boy in the central Russian city of Voronezh, where fears run high over a case of HIV infection from a local blood bank, may have contracted the virus from donor blood, the local health department said Thursday.
"Preliminary tests show the presence of HIV in the blood of an eleven-year old child," Mikhail Ivanov, a senior department official, said adding that a final diagnosis would be made after repeated tests.
Health officials have confirmed the case of one young woman who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion and other patients who received albumin injections from the infected blood are undergoing tests.
