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Article: AIDS & HIV
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- March 19, 1995
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BILL ERVOLINO, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-19-1995
AIDS & HIV -- NO END IN SIGHT FOR MEDICAL BATTLE
By BILL ERVOLINO, Staff Writer
Date: 03-19-1995, Sunday
Section: SPECIAL SECTIONS
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a progressive breakdown of
the immune system that leaves patients susceptible to a host of serious
and usually deadly medical complications.
In the United States, the condition was first observed in 1981,
among clusters of sexually active homosexual men. It was later found in
intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs, and patients who had received
infected blood during surgery. It has since appeared in all segments of
the ...