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Horne dies on November 30, 1981. The same year, the CDC retroactively identifies Horne as the first American patient of the AIDS epidemic. A Gay Men's Crisis 1980Īpril 24 – The CDC receives a report on Ken Horne, a gay man living in San Francisco who is suffering from Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a rare and unusually aggressive cancer linked with weakened immunity. Ten years after her death, a blood test finds she was infected with HIV. Over several years, she suffered from a number of opportunistic infections and severe immunodeficiency. A significant number of Haitians were working in the Congo at the time, with some likely bringing the virus back to the Caribbean on their return.ĭecemGrethe Rask, a Danish physician and surgeon who spent years working in the Congo, dies of pneumonia. Studies later reveal that HIV-1 arrived in the Americas during the late 1960s.
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Now known as the subtype HIV-1, the virus begins circulating in Léopoldville, now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo-believed to be the first zoonotic transmission of HIV.ġ959 - A man dies in the Congo-tests of his blood samples later establish this is the earliest confirmed HIV-related death.ġ960s - HIV-2 is believed to have jumped to humans from monkeys in West Africa, likely Guinea-Bisseau, around this time. Early 20th Century - At some point in the first few decades of the 20 th century, Simian Immunodeficiency Virus makes the jump from chimpanzees to humans in Central Africa.