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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A third adult movie performer tested positive Thursday for the virus that causes AIDS in the midst of an HIV outbreak that has halted most production, according to the director of an AIDS testing service.



"This is not over," said Sharon Mitchell, executive director of the nonprofit Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, which screens performers for sexually transmitted diseases.



Mitchell declined to identify the woman diagnosed Thursday but said the performer had sex with five men before all were barred from adult movie sets under a voluntary quarantine in place since the first HIV case was announced on April 12.



A total of 53 people are on the quarantine list, and dozens of producers have shut down production until further HIV testing gives the all-clear.



Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California claimed Thursday the county Department of Health Services violated the law by obtaining private medical information on potentially HIV-infected performers without a subpoena.



The ACLU and Being Alive Los Angeles, a group of 800 people with HIV or AIDS, sent a letter to the director of the health department's sexually transmitted disease program.