June 5: On This Day in 1981 - AIDS first noted by CDC

June 5, 1981: On this day, the Centers for Disease Control first described a new illness called AIDS in a newsletter. On July 27, 1982, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was adopted as the official name for the new disease by the CDC. The virus that causes AIDS was identified in 1983 and in May 1985 was named Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses. The first person killed by the disease in the developed world died in 1959.

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[Carrie Burrows]

I was going to post about this too today! My mom and dad say they remember watching it on tv...I was a baby!