AIDS Patient Leaves Manila on U.S. Flight
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MANILA — An American diagnosed as having AIDS left Saturday on a U.S. Air Force plane bound for the United States after commercial air carriers refused to fly him because of his illness.
The Air Force flew Brent Anderson to the Philippines on Wednesday from Kunming, China, after doctors there diagnosed his illness as acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Anderson, 38, left aboard an Air Force C-141 from Clark Air Base, said Sgt. James Kazam, a base spokesman. The plane will stop at U.S. air bases in Yokota, Japan, and Hawaii before arriving at Travis Air Force Base in California.
He eventually will be flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, where his family will meet him.
Anderson, who works for a computer-related business in New York, was traveling in China as a tourist when he entered a hospital June 18 with a high fever and respiratory illness.
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