The first documented cases of what later came to be called AIDS, was reported on June of 1981 on "MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT" published by the american centers for disease control. But Physicians in NY and S.Francisco had already began to notice unusual symptoms  in a number of Gay male patience's for some time.

(Physicians is a person qualified to practice medicine)

Dr: Donald Abrams

"in SF we began to see people in 1981 who were developing previously very unusual opportunistic infections and malignancies; pneumonia, and infections that we use to see only on children with leukemia, lymphomas, and Kaposy Sarcoma which was very rare skin disease; and it was quite striking in 1981 that there was unusual increase of diagnoses that were confined in our city to homosexual men.

After a while we realized that the people who had the pneumonia and the people who have the Kaposy Sarcoma were linked by both having an unusual immune-deficiency. A particular arm of the immune system had been wiped out, particularly was the cellular immune system; at first that was called "gay-related immune-deficiency" but that term was cast aside because soon became clear that there was other groups of people at risk to develop that syndrome other than just homosexual men so the term GRID was replaced with AIDS, because that was what it was; acquired immune-deficiency syndrome. The Question than became: what caused this; there are many theories; some people felt that the epidemic of intestinal parasites, hat had been seen in gay men in 1970s, might somehow be related to this new disease; we began to understand we were dealing with something that was likely to be sexually transmitted;

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in 1984, at a press conference held in the US, a retrovirus eventually called HIV was simply announced as the cause of AIDS; the US secretary of health and human services introduced Dr. Robert Gallo, whose new discovery, the virus HIV, was to became the focus of almost all AIDS researches.

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Peter H. Duesberg, professor of cellular and molecular biology at the University of California at Berkley, is one of the leading authority on retroviruses, a family of viruses which include HIV,

After spending a year reviewing evidences on HIV, he came to the conclusion that it could not possibly account for the destruction of the immune system; he wrote a meticulously documented critique to the HIV theory, published on the journal CANCER RESEARCH;

Peter H. Duesberg is not alone in his doubts on HIV, other leading professors have also join the..., including professor "Ruben",  considered the father of retro-virology, nobel price winning on molecular biology "Walter Gilbert", from Harvard University,  and British professor of epidemiology "Gordon Stewart"; together with dozens of scientists around the world they formed a group for the critical re-appraisal of the HIV hipotesys; and they began publishing a news-letter entitled "Rethinking AIDS"; which spells out their doubts about the HIV theory.

Vocabulary:

An opportunistic infection is an infection caused by pathogen (bacterial, viral, fungal or protozoan) that usually do not cause disease in a healthy host, i.e. one with a healthy immune system. A compromised immune system, however, presents an "opportunity" for the pathogen to infect.

Pathogen is a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

Malignancy: state or presence of malignant tumor; cancer,

Pneumonia: lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid.

Pus: (PAS) a thick yellowish or greenish opaque liquid produced in infected tissue, consisting of dead white blood cells and bacteria with tissue debris and serum.

Leukemia: (LUKIMIA) a malignant progressive disease in which the bone marrow and other blood-forming organs produce increased number os immature or abnormal leukocytes. These suppress the production of normal blood cells, leading to anemia and other symptoms.

leukocytes: (LUKOSAITS) a colorless cell that circulates in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease; a white (blood) cell.

syndrome: a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms;

lymphoma: cancer of the lymph nodes.

Kaposy Sarcoma: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoma_di_Kaposi

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