BUDAPEST, Hungary—Director/performer "Porno" Dan Leal released the following statement Monday morning on behalf of the Hungarian-based adult industry community regarding the current production shutdown in Europe due to an HIV-positive test result in the talent pool:
On the morning of Thursday, February 14 we were notified of a possible positive HIV test at one of the labs by several individuals and quickly went into to a course of action to immediately suspend all productions. By mid-afternoon, this person (patient zero) was confirmed to be positive.
Since models travel throughout Europe for work patient zero let the agencies across Europe know who they worked with in the time period between his last negative test and his positive test. This list was a total of nine models (first generation exposures). Through the hard work of JulModels, Euromodels, White Models, United Modeling, Model Mania, Sandy’s Models, Brill Babes, Nikki's Models, and others, all first generation exposures were contacted and quarantined by the night of the 14th as well as their partners (second generation exposures).
Announcements for a shutdown of production across Europe, until this situation was resolved, were made on adult industry boards, online magazines media sources, and platforms, as well every major mainstream social networking sites. Too many models and companies to be listed here are to be commended in their hard work for getting this message out in a timely manner.
A meeting was called for on the night on Friday, February 15 in Budapest, Hungary on the best course of action to take regarding this very unfortunate situation. Before this incident, most companies in Europe took tests that were normally based on the Elisa detection system for HIV. This has a window of detection of 45 to 60 days. A test was valid up to one month in parts of Europe. It was decided that the producers and talent in Hungary would only accept PCR/RNA testing for HIV going forward which has a significantly lower time table for detection of 7 to 10 days and testing would be done every 14 days. All models of Hungarian agencies will only work with production companies in other parts of Europe who abide by these same guidelines.
Also, all productions would only accept tests after February 18 which require everyone who shoots here to retest using PCR/RNA before resuming production.
In addition, the adult industry in Hungary is committed to making the adult industry a safer and better place. We will be having meetings to try and get even more advanced and better testing practices and policies enacted here and encourage all production in other parts of Europe to make the switch to PCR/RNA testing every 14 days.
It should be noted that [this] is the first adult industry HIV shutdown in Europe and hopefully with the new testing measures will be the last.
Over the weekend, much commentary was volleyed on social media among European talent and producers about when production would resume there, with some suggesting that it may start back up as early as today. Asked whether any decision had yet been reached about this among the community, Leal told AVN, "There is no unanimous decision from Hungary but as of now no one is shooting as we are still working on the logistics of switching tests."
