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    History of a Pandemic

    Jacob Anderson-Minshall

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    Jacob Anderson-Minshall
    12/01/15

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    35 Years of HIV and AIDS
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    In 2016 we observe the 35th anniversary of the diagnosis of the first cases of AIDS. Of course, we now know that HIV didn’t suddenly appear in 1981. There were a handful of cases of what we now recognize as AIDS-related illnesses in the decades prior to 1980. But 1981 is when people in the U.S. first recognized symptoms of AIDS, which was attacking mostly gay men.

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