The World - News from April 29, 1987

The United States has 33,720 of the world’s 46,628 reported AIDS cases, the World Health Organization said in its latest update. Europe has 4,903 cases and Africa 3,538, the U.N. agency said. The figures were presented to health officials from 30 countries at a meeting in Geneva to discuss how to check the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The agency said the reported figures fall far short of actual cases, which it estimates at more than 100,000. The report said that 50 to 100 million people might become infected with the AIDS virus by 1991, compared with 5 million to 10 million at present.