(Des Moines)– State health officials are focusing on H-I-V in the lakes area…Milford, in particular.
They’re trying to determine how many people may be at risk of getting the virus that causes AIDS after a local man was charged with exposing four women to H-I-V.
Dewayne Boyd is charged with four counts of criminal transmission of H-I-V, which is a felony. He’s being held in the Dickinson county jail.
Randy Mayer heads the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program. He says dozens of women in the Milford area have asked for testing and counseling since Boyd’s arrest.
According to the department’s records, there have been nine cases in Iowa in which individuals have been charged with exposing others to the virus. Four cases were in Johnson county, three in Black Hawk county and two in Dubuque county.
(Story from the Associated press.).
