Subject: RUSSIA: First Death of AIDS Registered in Murmansk

From: [email-masked] (Bjoern Skolander)
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 21:03:51 +0200 (MET DST)

"First Death of AIDS Registered in Murmansk" 
Itar Wire Service (05/06/97)
     The Russian city of Murmansk, located above the Arctic Circle,
has registered its first AIDS death, that of a 34-year-old 
HIV-positive seaman.  According to the local HIV prevention center, 
40 HIV-positive individuals occupy the Kola peninsula; all were 
infected while abroad.