过去五年来,在美国以及美洲、西欧和非洲的许多国家发现了一种流行型的新传染性免疫缺陷病。目前这种病被称为获得性免疫缺陷综合征,或AIDS。这些病人具有原因不明的免疫缺陷,并以机遇性感染和恶性疾病为其特征。虽然到目前为止,亚洲各国病例极少,而本病病毒的传播途经与乙型肝炎病毒相似,后者在亚洲是常见的。这就提示,亚洲各国包括中国在内,可能与世界其他国家一样遭受此灾难性疾病的侵袭,除非东方国家的性行为和其他行为模式与西方国家确有巨大的差异。通过对AIDS临床特征、流行 In the past five years, a pandemic new infectious immunodeficiency disease has been found in many countries in the United States, the Americas, Western Europe and Africa. The current disease is called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. These patients have unexplained immunodeficiency and are characterized by opportunistic infections and malignant diseases. Although so far, there are very few cases in Asia and the transmission of this virus is similar to that of hepatitis B virus, which is common in Asia. This suggests that all Asian countries, including China, may suffer the same catastrophe as other countries in the world unless the sexes and other patterns of behavior in the East are substantially different from those in the West. Through the clinical features of AIDS, epidemic