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    A GLOBAL CONCERN

    May 13, 2021 2 minutes

    United States 1981

    linical reports began to describe clusters of a rare type of pneumonia and other unusual infections among gay men and then injecting drug users, in California and New York. News of this novel disease was picked up by the gay press. Different names and possible explanations were floated and the term “Aids”

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