In 1981, most Americans were oblivious to an emerging sickness that was overtaking gays. Throughout the spring and summer that year, a mystery would slowly unfold in U.S. metropolitan areas. It was ...

Thirty years ago today on June 5, 1981 the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported. The disease that was centered in San Francisco was first detected in Los Angeles. Those first ...

When it was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981, AIDS was nearly synonymous with a death sentence. Luckily, in the decades since, the advent of modern medicine ...

1981: AIDS is described in an issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 1984: AIDS identified as being caused by a human retrovirus, Human ...

This Tuesday, the world will mark 20 years of AIDS. It is a ghastly anniversary, especially for San Francisco, where the epidemic touched down early and devastated a generation of gay men. Like a ...

Since U.S. doctors first described the disease in June 1981, AIDS and the HIV virus that causes it have spread relentlessly from a few widely scattered hot spots to virtually every country in the ...

On this day, June 5, 1981, the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported in the United States. In India, the country's massive health emergency of the smallpox epidemic ...

Thirty years ago, in June 1981, AIDS first appeared in the United States as a recognized condition and for the next 15 years, a diagnosis of AIDS was basically a death sentence. Advances in treatment ...