US:
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HIV was prevalent in US for of years prior to the first known case of AIDS
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First recognized in NY and NJ in 1971, made its way to Cali and Georgia by 1979
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1980:
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From October 1980 to May 1981 five homosexual men were treated for biopsy tested Pneumocystis carini pneumonia at THREE different hospitals, two had died
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Reported by MS Gottlieb, MD, HM Schanker, MD, PT Fan, MD, A Saxon, MD, JD Weisman, DO, Div of Clinical Immunology-Allergy; Dept of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine; I Pozalski, MD, Cedars-Mt. Siani Hospital, Los Angeles; Field services Div, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC.
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1981:
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By July 1981, 41 cases of aggressive Kaposi Sarcoma (rare form of relatively benign cancer found in the elderly) among homosexual men in New York and California
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8 victims died in 24 months or less
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https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in-41-homosexuals.html
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By the end of 1981 121 people had died
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1983:
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3,064 cases of AIDS were diagnosed
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1,292 People had died from complications to the disease
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Government does nothing to acknowledge it
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1984:
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4,251 people had died
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US Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced that Dr. Robert Gallo of the NCI had isolated AIDS virus -HTLV-III
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Heckler-"We hope to have a vaccine [against AIDS] ready for testing in about two years.“ … "yet another terrible disease is about to yield to patience, persistence and outright genius
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Government still does not acknowledge the existence of AIDS
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1985:
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5,636 people had died from AIDS
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PRESIDENT FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGES AIDS
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In total, 13,309 people died from complications to AIDS before it was recognized by the US government system as an issue to be tended too
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