http://www.aidswork.org/what-is-hiv/ Providing help for people with HIV and AIDS Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.aidswork.org/what-is-hiv/#comment-7 AIDS Work » Blog Archive » Brief History of AIDS Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:45:37 +0000 http://www.aidswork.org/?p=8#comment-7 [...] AIDS was first noticed in 1981 from reports of previously rare diseases appearing in unexpectedly high numbers of homosexual men.  Two years later a new, unique virus was isolated from a patient with persistent generalized Lymphadenopathy.  Subsequent characterization of the virus, and repeated isolations and antibody detection from at-risk populations as well as those with frank AIDS, further established this virus as the etiologic agent, eventually resulting in its naming as Human Immunodeficiency Virus. [...] [...] AIDS was first noticed in 1981 from reports of previously rare diseases appearing in unexpectedly high numbers of homosexual men.  Two years later a new, unique virus was isolated from a patient with persistent generalized Lymphadenopathy.  Subsequent characterization of the virus, and repeated isolations and antibody detection from at-risk populations as well as those with frank AIDS, further established this virus as the etiologic agent, eventually resulting in its naming as Human Immunodeficiency Virus. [...]

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