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PIP: With 982 registered AIDS cases, Brazil is in 3rd place in the number of AIDS cases, exceeded only by the US and France. The World Health Organization, however, says that Brazil could experience an uncontrolled AIDS epidemic as intense as that in central Africa. A Copenhagen statistician says that AIDS will not continue to grow exponentially the way it did at the beginning of the epidemic. People who have already been infected by AIDS are primarily members of high risk groups in which the disease spreads at least 10 times and more likely 100 times more rapidly than in the remainder of the population. From these statistics one can forecast that the worst case scenario will reach a peak in 1997, after which the AIDS epidemic will grow slowly. The British football league has issued a circular advising athletes on avoiding the risks of AIDS infection. Among other items they are advised not to drink victory champagne from the same bottle. Specialists, however, feel that the risk for AIDS infection in football contact is extremely small and that the biggest danger lies in unsanitary injections in connection with doping. The students at an Innherred, Norway, nursing school have signed a petition in support of a woman who was fired from her bartender job when she told her employer she was HIV-positive. A local magistrate had found that the firing was unfounded but did not order the woman's job restored.^ieng