- - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome By Sociology 45 November 1994 AIDS         Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - AIDS - has stimulated more interest in history than any other disease of modern times. Since the epidemic was first identified in 1981, scientists, physicians, public officials, and journalists have frequently raised historical questions. Most often these questions have been about contemporary social and epidemiological history: Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of …showed first 75 words of 2881 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2881 total…the victims were homosexual men in New York and California, but soon heterosexual Haitians and drug addicts were diagnosed. Then blood recipients, particularly hemophiliacs, fell before this new, puzzling, and deadly epidemic. There were many questions and few answers. There were demands for drastic actions, but no one was quite certain what to do. Although medical advances are being made in the treatment of AIDS related disease, there is no known cure for AIDS. 2                  Page 1