Abstract
The AIDS threat burst upon the public consciousness in the early 1980s. The disease was not even recognized or defined by the medical establishment until 1981. By 1984, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had been isolated and shown to be the cause of the combination of symptoms known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS. By then there was little doubt that the disease had reached epidemic proportions and that a fullfledged catastrophe was in the making.
If you were the devil, you couldn’t conceive of a disease that would be more disruptive and disturbing than this one. It could prove to be the plague of the millennium.
—Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien (1)
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Karplus, W.J. (1992). The AIDS Epidemic. In: The Heavens Are Falling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6024-5_9
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