[Judith Anne]

Yes, thanks. My father, now deceased, had surgery and several transfusions due to bleeding ulcers in the early 80's. That was when the very first articles about HIV infection were appearing. IIRC, the first articles Newsweek and Time had about HIV were around 1983. Until then, it wasn't in the news much.

[firebrand]

Rememer when it was called GRID--gay-related immunodeficiency disease? Then HTLV. Can't recall what that stood for.