May 31st, 2011, 06:34
At first it seemed an oddity: a scattering of reports in the spring and early summer of 1981 that young gay men in New York and California were ill with forms of pneumonia and cancer usually seen only in people with severely weakened immune systems.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/health/31aids.html?_r=1&hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/health/31aids.html?_r=1&hp