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Article: Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Epidemic in San Francisco Gay Men Predates HIV Epidemic, UCSF Study Finds.
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- January 8, 2002
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Byline: University of California, San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A high percentage of San Francisco gay men were infected with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), in 1978 before the onset of the HIV epidemic, according to University of California, San Francisco researchers.
"In part because KS was so rare in the U.S. prior to the HIV epidemic, it had been assumed that KSHV infection was also rare before the HIV epidemic. However, we found a high percentage -- about one in four-of gay men infected with KSHV before large numbers were infected with HIV," said the study's ...