A gay friend died in Baltimore in 1975/6. He suffered from IDS for about 4 years. This was 5 or more years before AIDS was officially diagnosed in this population. Since then we have suspected he was an early undiagnosed case of AIDS.
“A gay friend died in Baltimore in 1975/6. He suffered from IDS for about 4 years. This was 5 or more years before AIDS was officially diagnosed in this population. Since then we have suspected he was an early undiagnosed case of AIDS.”
By my time in grad school in the late 70s, we were getting reports of the rapid increase in Kaposi’s sarcoma - the gay cancer - and a large increase in immunodeficient diseases, also in the gay population. These followed the pattern of disease transmission, but also might have been caused by something in a shared lifestyle. Some were even postulating that the immunodeficiency was being caused by an autoimmune reaction to semen.