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Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You
This Podcast Will Kill You
The Crying Episode
In 1980, a 33 year old man comes to your hospital complaining of a fever for about two months. He's also infected with cytomegalovirus, which generally doesn't cause any problems unless a person is immunocompromised. You run a whole bunch of tests and you diagnose him with pneumonia caused by a fungus called pneumocystis carinii. Unfortunately, his condition deteriorates despite attempts to treat with antifungals and the patient dies in May of 1981. Cut back to April, 1981. Another patient presents to your hospital in LA with strikingly similar symptoms. Then you find out that in January and February of 1981 at another hospital, two other men presented with
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