Wednesday, September 12, 2012

When was the first case of HIV_AIDS in the united states

When was the first case of HIV_AIDS in the united states?
I NEED TO KNOW WHO WERE THE PEOPLE THAT HAD THE FIRST CASE KNOWN IN THE UNITED STATES (details please) thnx...!!!!!
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That is hard to answer. HIV was obviously going on for some time before suspicion about a new, different disease became apparent. The people with HIV were dying from that unusual cancers and pneumonia that are now known as classic HIV/AIDS signs. They only way we can find out exactly who the first case was is to start exhuming a whole bunch of people for a repeat autopsy and lab work. By 1983 HIV was already in standard nursing and medical teaching texts. It probably started sometime in the early 70's although I have heard it was earlier than that. I will look around for the first DOCUMENTED case and edit as needed. Okey dokey... here is what I found. In 1968 a 15 year old black boy was hospitalized in St. Louis. He died of an aggressive form of Kaposi's sarcoma (an HIV related cancer). His serum and tissue samples were saved. They tested positive for HIV. He had never been outside of the USA. That takes it to 1968 BUT... he got it from somebody. And he was just a youngster. Looking further back it started with a Belgian congo Bantu tribesman where samples were saved and there is the virus in those tissues. This was 1959. We've gone back another ten years into africa. God ony knows how long this has really been around. I read there is thinking this might have become a problem in WW2(another 10 years back again) when men went all over the world and then came home again. Here is the webpage http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-01-03#S1.2X Here is another edit: The first HIV case in the USA where doctors knew what is was without a doubt was June 1981, in several young homosexuals with the Pneumonia Carinii (the HIV pneumonia) ICU RN ccrn retired

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