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AIDS
Title: AIDS
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Details: Words: 2916 | Pages: 12.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
AIDS
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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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 particular groups?
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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.
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