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| WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON A new estimate of how many Americans have the AIDS virus puts the number at about 1.1 million, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
The minimum number of HIV-infected persons in the United States given by the total of persons reported living with AIDS and living with HIV to CDC through December 2001 was 506,154. It is likely that there are at least another 200,000 or so additional persons with HIV infection not captured by the reporting system.