HIV Transmission

30 Sex Partners of Infected Man Have Tested Positive For HIV

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 12th, 1997

St. Louis, Missouri, health officials continue to scramble to find the sex partners of an HIV infected man after confirming about 30 women and men have now tested positive for HIV.

The number of infected includes Darnell "Bossman" McGee's sex partners and the partners' partners, health officials said. Dozens more are still awaiting results.

McGee is one of only a few documented cases nationwide in which someone knowingly spread HIV to 12 or more people, health officials said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control was expected to join local health officials in their effort to identify McGee's sex partners and others exposed to the...

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