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AIDS Stages of Care – Three So Far; Will Number Four Come Soon? It All Depends on Finding A Vaccine

It was just 30 years ago in June 1981 when the first cases of what came to be known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR.) These were men who had a wasting illness and died of unusual infections, ones of the types seen mostly in “immunocompromised hosts.” These were infections with which I was very familiar in my work treating and preventing infections in aggressively treated…

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Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 29, 2011 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

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