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A blood sample is taken from a dying man inn 1959 in the Republic of Congo and stored away in a freezer until 1998. They realize it is the first case of aidsA blood sample is taken from a dying man inn 1959 in the Republic of Congo and stored away in a freezer until 1998. They realize it is the first case of aids
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Dr Grethe Rath dies if infections while working in the Congo 1977. They identify a rare form of pneumonia pneumocystis carinii.
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1979 Doctors in Haiti find people are dying from Kaposi Sarcoma and rare skin cancer usually found in older European men.They realize they have a new disease.
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1981 New disease found in drug users in New York shooting galleries.
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sore throat, headache, fever, sore muscle, pneumonia
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1983 A group called the Aids Medical Foundation is formed by Dr. Mathilde Krim who is a cancer researcher in New York.
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1984 the viruses HTLVI and HTLVII that cause aids is discovered and announced in the US. It is related to the retrovirus family that causes leukemia.
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1986 A second virus HIV2 is discovered. It shows slink between monkey viruses and human viruses.
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1986 The first treatment for aids is developed called AZT.
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The CDC reports that Blacks and Hispanics are three times more likely to get Aids than whites people.
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1988 Protesters shut down FDA because they believe that they are taking the process drug approval for aids too slowly.
