LWSO 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Canadian Red Cross, Mortality Rate, Moral Panic
7 Mar 2016
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Initial discovery of aids among "active homosexuals in los. No diagnostic test, hard to detect symptoms (flu-like) Girl in montreal born with aids, mother dies 6 weeks later-aids symptoms. Mysterious illness, multiple cases in the u. s. and montreal. Victim was gay and had travelled to haiti. Gay men attempt to pass information about the disease within the community. No clear indication of how infection occurs or why. No cases have survived more than 20 weeks from beginning of infection. Drop off in number of reports, canadian numbers follow us numbers. Canadian red cross bars gay men, drug users, haitians from donating blood. U. s. secretary of health reports discovery of virus causing aids. Plans for the development of a test for infection. Crc tests blood in canadian blood banks and finds evidence of hiv. Call to stop providing sex education to 8th grade students (1986) No mention of hoping that he gets better.
