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[27 July 2007] - A summer basketball camp turned away a 10-year-old because he has the virus that causes AIDS, according to a lawsuit filed by the boy's mother. The head of Deer Mountain Day Camp's weeklong basketball program initially told the mom her HIV-positive son would be welcome for a 2004 session at the Rockland County camp, according to the lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in White Plains. Two days before the program started - after the family had paid $345 for the program and $250 for clothes and equipment - the camp director told the mother the boy would not be admitted because he has the virus, the lawsuit said. A lawyer for Deer Mountain, Rodney Gould, said the camp had not discriminated against the boy. The boy, now 12, who was infected before birth, has taken medication for years and is healthy and athletic, his lawyers said. The lawsuit described the risk of his transmitting the virus to other campers or staffers as "infinitesimally small." Further information
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