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[https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-aids by HISTORY 13/7/17] | [https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-aids by HISTORY 13/7/17] | ||
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the outbreak of HIV and AIDS swept across the United States and rest of the world, though the disease originated decades earlier. Today, more than 70 million people have been infected with HIV and about 35 million have died from AIDS since the start of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). | In the 1980s and early 1990s, the outbreak of HIV and AIDS swept across the United States and rest of the world, though the disease originated decades earlier. Today, more than 70 million people have been infected with HIV and about 35 million have died from AIDS since the start of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). | ||
=====Origin and progression of HIV-1===== | |||
[https://www.brandeis.edu/quantitative-biology/docs/zorba1-wa.pdf by Adelajda Zorba] | |||
AIDS does not develop in monkeys | |||
where HIV originated from. | |||
How come? | |||
=====Progress Through Innovation and Activism===== | |||
[https://www.gileadhiv.com/landscape/history-of-hiv/ by GILEAD] | |||
The first published report of what would ultimately become known as HIV and AIDS appeared in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in June 1981.1 When these initial cases emerged, very little was known about the disease; it did not have an agreed-upon name, researchers had not yet determined what caused it, there were no tests or recognized treatments, and by the time most patients presented with symptoms, they had only months to live.2 | |||
