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How Long Has Virus Been Stalking Victims?
by John Crewdson
Chicago Tribune
Sunday October 25, 1987
It was the spring of 1959... an anonymous resident of Kinshasa, Zaire, was having his AIDS-infected blood drawn for posterity, while in the industrial city of Manchester, England an ailing British sailor was presenting himself to doctors at the Royal Infirmary. For nearly two years, the young sailor said, he had suffered from a variety of puzzling symptoms, including strange purplish lesions on his back and shoulders. Then, just before Christmas of 1958, his condition had taken a turn for the worse. The slightest exertion left him breathless, and he had come down with a bad case of "night sweats." He began losing weight at an alarming rate, experienced unremitting fatigue and developed a spiking fever. The sailor grew steadily weaker until, in August of 1959, he died. An autopsy found evidence of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), an infection of the lung that was then almost unheard of in adults... A second case recorded in 1959 was closer to home, but no less mysterious. This time the subject was a 48-year-old shipping clerk for a Manhattan garment manufacturer who had come to New York City from his native Haiti three decades before. Shortly after falling ill, the clerk developed many of the same symptoms as the sailor: shortness of breath, loss of weight, headache, sore throat and malaise, continuous fatigue and profuse night sweats. Finally he died. Once again, PCP proved to be the cause of death-and no underlying disease or immune deficiency could be found... AIDS may have been responsible for otherwise inexplicable deaths going back 30 years or more.

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