Draft rule would bar AIDS, STD patients from baths, spas

By Cai Wenjun | October 14, 2013, Monday |

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A NATIONAL draft regulation governing businesses offering bath, foot massage, therapeutic springs or spa services has caused controversy due to its proposed ban on customers with sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS and infectious skin diseases.

Medical experts said the HIV virus that causes AIDS doesn't spread through public bathing facilities and such a ban is a kind of discrimination.

Industry officials also said regulations are not feasible as it is impossible for staff to tell an AIDS patient by appearance only.
The Ministry of Commerce, which issued the draft, is asking for comment on it.

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Draft rule would bar AIDS, STD patients from baths, spas

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