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Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You
This Podcast Will Kill You
The First AIDS Pandemic in the US
HIV was circulating in Kinshasa, which is the capital of the DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by the early 1920s. The virus then probably arrives in Haiti, which became a later, a big hotspot in 1966. And it probably arrived first in the US in 1968, though it could have been almost 10 years earlier. Later testing of blood samples shows HIV infection in a Norwegian sailor and his family and a Danish physician in the mid to late 1970s. By this time, the virus had firmly established itself in major cities in the U.S., those that would later be identified as epicenters of the AIDS crisis.
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