1.   HBV can also be transmitted through sexual intercourse with an infected individual and perinatally from infected mother to infant.

2.   Although a handful of drugs still work against resistant strains, the failure of initial treatment allows infected individuals to continue transmitting the disease to their sexual partners.

3.   As mentioned previously, some infected individuals never develop symptoms of infection.

4.   Bacteria that cause meningitis pose a danger only to susceptible individuals and are usually spread through close, prolonged contact with an infected individuals.

5.   A chief goal of the strategy is to reduce by half the number of newly infected individuals in five years.

6.   A government-appointed panel of AIDS experts recommended last month that combination anti-HIV therapy be offered to infected individuals.

7.   Additional days might pass before an infected individual seeks medical attention, laboratory tests are performed, and an accurate diagnosis is made.

8.   But any reporting plan must protect the privacy of infected individuals.

9.   But because HIV eventually causes AIDS in virtually all untreated infected individuals, a vaccine recipient might develop AIDS years later.

10.   But exactly what could be done for infected individuals is unclear.