The CDC Reports the First AIDS Cases
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CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEThe MMWR issue carrying the five Los Angeles cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia is dated 5 June 1981.[1]
The CDC's weekly report carried five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in previously healthy young men in Los Angeles, two of them already dead. It is the first published account of what became AIDS, four years before the virus behind it was agreed on.
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