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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993                   TAG: 9304140284
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short

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AIDS PATIENT PHENOMENON DIES AT 45

Ron Webeck, who was diagnosed with the AIDS virus and became a medical oddity four years later when sophisticated tests could find no trace of the virus in his blood, died Saturday. He was 45.

Webeck, who had lymphoma, died after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier. It wasn't known whether his death was AIDS-related. St. Anthony's Hospital, where he died, wouldn't say.

Webeck was diagnosed with the virus in 1985 but made a remarkable recovery from a lethal brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, one of the opportunistic diseases that afflict AIDS patients.

He had sophisticated tests taken in 1989 that repeatedly failed to turn up the AIDS virus in his blood.

Doctors were unable to explain what happened, but they predicted the virus would come back. Eventually he was stricken with heart inflammation and pneumonia.

- Associated Press

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