ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME(AIDS)

25 years of AIDS

Year 1981: First discovered in the U.S. in June by US scientists among gay men and intravenous drug users who reported to be having an unusual immune system failure.  Young gay men in New York and California exhibited a rare form of pneumonia and aggressive form of Kaposi's Sarcoma.

Year 1982:  First case of possible mother to child transmission of AIDS as well as infection by blood transfusions reported by US Centers for Disease Control.  Deaths relating to AIDS crossed 1000 in U.S.

Year 1983:  The cause of AIDS, a virus, discovered by Dr.Luc Montagnier (France) and Dr.Robert Gallo (U.S.). The isolated retrovirus later named as Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV epidemic exposed in Central Africa.

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