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From: IQTI400%INDYCMS.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu (MacPhil)
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Subject: Re: (3128) HIV -- early strains
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Date: 4 May 91 23:17:11 GMT
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On Sat, 4 May 91 14:04:40 pdt Support Account for SCI.MED.AIDS said:
>
>I read that in a Project Inform article that there is evidence of HIV
>infection dating back to the 1950's.  That is the first time I
>heard anything about that.  Does anyone have any info about that or
>any references??
>Thanks
>Jeanne
>

There are a number for stories, varying in degrees of believability,
which have surfaced in pursuit of a "Patient Zero" (the first human
to be determined to have contracted the disease, regardless of how).

The two most commonly-told stories in the media I read are that of
the homosexual airline steward and another of a teenager who died
under mysterious circumstances and some of his tissues, etc. were
frozen for the future and identified since the mid 80's as AIDS.

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