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Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You

This Podcast Will Kill You

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AIDS - Patient Zero

The CDC task force set about trying to isolate a common thread that would reveal the origin of this epidemic. Two things emerged from these early interviews: heterosexual intravenous drug users were also becoming sick with the disease. Several gay men who were among the earliest recognized cases seemed to be linked to one another by their sexual history. Both of these things pointed to an infectious disease transmitted by blood or bodily fluids, not an environmental exposure.

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