On This Day: June 5, 1981 – First Recognized AIDS Cases Reported in the United States

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On This Day: June 5, 1981 – First Recognized AIDS Cases Reported in the United States.

On this day June 5, 1981, the United States Centers for Disease Control published a report describing five previously healthy young men in Los Angeles who had developed a rare form of pneumonia called PCP, commonly seen in people with severely weakened immune systems. All five men were gay, and two of them had already died by the time the report was released.

This marked the first official recognition of what would later become known as AIDS. At the time, the medical community did not...

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