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Jun 11, 2009 3:00 pm US/Central

SoCal Porn Industry Has 1st HIV Case In 4 Years

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: An unidentified actress in Southern California's porn industry has tested positive for HIV, the first public case for the industry in four years.
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A San Fernando Valley health clinic that serves the adult film industry says an actress has tested positive for HIV.

The Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation said Wednesday that initial HIV tests of the woman's partners have come up negative, but they are not being allowed to perform and are being encouraged to test again in two weeks.

The case is the first publicly confirmed HIV infection in the industry in Southern California since 2004 when an HIV outbreak shut down porn production for a month.

County Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan Fielding says his office received no reports about the incident by Wednesday afternoon but would launch an investigation.

At that time, a porn actor who had returned from working in Brazil spread the virus to three actresses who had performed with him, according to the LATimes.com. A transsexual performer unrelated to the other cases also tested positive, the site reports.

"This is really not a major event," Brooke Hunter, the clinic's administrator told the L.A. Times. She added that the infected actress had worked "very infrequently."