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Outbreak of HIV cases in Lawrence, Lowell alarms health experts
Boston could be next?
Joe Dwinell Thursday, July 26, 2018
An alarming spike in HIV cases among addicts clustered in Lowell and Lawrence has health experts warning Boston could be next with more drug users sharing dirty needles as the opioid epidemic grows.
A state Department of Public Health report released yesterday shows an outbreak of HIV cases in the Merrimack Valley cities and surrounding communities.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assisted in the study that uncovered 129 intravenous drug users with HIV in the Lowell-Lawrence area since 2015.
That?s up from 11 cases in the same area in 2014, said Kevin Cranston, DPH assistant commissioner and director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences...
Outbreak of HIV cases in Lawrence, Lowell alarms health experts
Boston could be next?
Joe Dwinell Thursday, July 26, 2018
An alarming spike in HIV cases among addicts clustered in Lowell and Lawrence has health experts warning Boston could be next with more drug users sharing dirty needles as the opioid epidemic grows.
A state Department of Public Health report released yesterday shows an outbreak of HIV cases in the Merrimack Valley cities and surrounding communities.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assisted in the study that uncovered 129 intravenous drug users with HIV in the Lowell-Lawrence area since 2015.
That?s up from 11 cases in the same area in 2014, said Kevin Cranston, DPH assistant commissioner and director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences...