Another woman who had worked with Darren James has been found to be HIV-positive. AIM Healthcare Foundation (AIM) declined to identify the woman, saying they were legally prohibited from doing so since everyone who had worked with the woman in question was already quarantined.
This new HIV-positive diagnosis brings the total number of victims of the virus during this outbreak up to three. Darren James is believed to have caught the virus around March 10 while working in Brazil. The twelve women that worked with James during the time he is believed to have been HIV-positive were placed on the "first-generation" list, and their partners were placed on the "second-generation" list.
Lara Roxx, from Montreal, was the first member of the first-generation list to be diagnosed as HIV-positive. Her name was released upon her diagnosis because her other partners were not known at that time.
Both members of the first- and second-generation list were quarantined, and a large percentage of the industry halted production for 60 days against the odds that the virus had not been contained.
"This is a testimony to the containment system because for the first time in AIM's history we do not and will not [disclose the identity of the HIV-positive performer]," AIM's executive director Sharon Mitchell, PhD, told AVN.com. "We don't expect there to be a second-generation in her case, because everyone has been placed in quarantine for 60 days.
"So far all of the males have come in for testing. We are in contact with all first-generation parties for this female and are retesting each individual as fast as we can," Mitchell said.
