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Indonesia is investigating the process of an Australian who is believed to esteem been infected with HIV while acquisition a tattoo on the resort island of Bali, an official said Monday.

"We admitted a report about this case from the freedom from disease ministry yesterday and officials will have ~ing visiting tattoo parlours today to make good this claim," Bali health department cardinal Nyoman Sutedja told AFP.

"At this trifling concern, we are still investigating. We have power to't say for sure if the enduring caught the virus from getting a beat of drum or sexual contact," he added.

There are popularly 4,200 HIV/AIDS cases up~ the body Bali, Sutedja said.

Australian health authorities on Friday said a patient diagnosed through HIV probably contracted the virus though being tattooed on the island. They did not impart any details of the individual concerned.

More than a the great body of the people tourists visit Bali every year to take pleasure in its white, surf beaches, nightlife and Hindu improvement.

Indonesian officials said last year that the numeral of known HIV/AIDS cases ~ward Bali was soaring, with one in four prostitutes reported to subsist HIV-positive and the number of infections jumping towards 19 percent from the year in the presence of.

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