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  2. Scott County, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    In late 2014 and early 2015, 17 HIV infections arising from Scott County initiated an Indiana Department of Health investigation that would result in the state declaring a public health emergency. The outbreak was fueled in part to intravenous drug use resulting from the opioid epidemic compounded by poor access to HIV testing. [18]

  3. Austin, Indiana - Wikipedia

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    The outbreak required emergency action by state officials. [6] When the outbreak was first detected there were 30 HIV cases in a town that had, up until this point, only had 3 cases over several decades. [7] After 29 days, by the time Governor Mike Pence determined a course of action, the number of HIV cases had skyrocketed to 79. In response ...

  4. Viral Maps Show Exactly How An HIV Outbreak Spread - AOL

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  5. Local doctor's book looks at opioid epidemic, Scott County ...

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    Jul. 30—SOUTHERN INDIANA — A local doctor who has worked on the frontlines of a devastating opioid epidemic and HIV outbreak in Scott County wants to bring awareness of the disparities ...

  6. HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, a major HIV outbreak, Indiana's largest-ever, occurred in two largely rural, economically depressed and poor counties in the southern portion of the state, due to the injection of a relatively new opioid-type drug called Opana (oxymorphone), which is designed be taken in pill form but is ground up and injected intravenously using needles.

  7. Drug needle exchanges gain ground after Indiana HIV outbreak

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  8. Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, the sample was tested by researchers, identifying partial HIV viral sequences. [8] The specimen, named DRC60 contained a strain of HIV-1 around 88% similar to LEO70, but was found to be most closely related to HIV-1 (M) subgroup A isolates. These two specimens are significant not only because they are the oldest known specimens of HIV ...

  9. Indiana governor declares public health emergency to stem HIV ...

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