PARIS, Dec 11, Reuter - France, Europe's most AIDS-ravaged

mandatory testing for the killer virus.

would try to establish in coming months if there was a

national

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

``Possible mandatory testing will be the object of a big

after a regular cabinet meeting.

France's top AIDS researcher, Professor Luc Montagnier, has

AIDS has so far killed 8,500 people in France. A further

Doctors have diagnosed 70,000 people as being HIV-positive

Attention has recently focused on AIDS after revelations

knowingly allowed HIV-infected blood to be used in transfusion

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