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Four decades of AIDS – Yahoo News Australia
Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world.
Here is a look at the discovery and the fight against the deadly condition.
– 1981: First alert –
In June 1981 US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men from California, some of whom have died. Unusual versions of skin cancer are identified in others.
It is the first alert about…
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