The Nation - News from July 1, 1987
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The Illinois House passed legislation that would require the state Department of Public Health to trace the sex partners of persons infected with the AIDS virus. The bill, previously passed by the Senate, fits into a comprehensive package of AIDS legislation that would also require testing for marriage license applicants, prison inmates, some hospital patients and convicted sex offenders, and permit state officials to seek quarantine orders against anyone who knowingly spread the disease. Illinois has the highest number of confirmed AIDS cases in the Midwest, 868 since 1981, as of May.
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