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US Has 'Under-Estimated Spread of HIV by 40 Percent'

LOS ANGELES - The United States has been under-estimating the spread of HIV by more than 40 per cent per year for the past decade, according to newly-published research indicating that the domestic AIDS epidemic may be far more widespread than previously thought.

A new testing technique has revealed that roughly 56,300 Americans were infected by the virus in 2006, the last year for which data is available. That's a significant increase from the 40,000 cited as standard by politicians and medical experts for the past fifteen years.