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More AIDS Cases And Overdose Deaths

By Staff Feb 9, 2023 | 4:31 PM


Four more cases of HIV/AIDS have been confirmed in Kenora.

The updated figures are from Moving Kenora Forward.

Drug use is to blame for the new cases, and is in addition to the 18 positive cases confirmed in the past year.

There have also been five drug overdose deaths in the past five weeks involving young people.

Contaminated opiates are believed to be the cause of the overdoses.