ENG122H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aids, World Health Organization, Pneumocystis Pneumonia
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1981: in 1981, cases of a rare lung infecion called pneumocysis carinii pneumonia (pcp) were found in ive young, previously healthy gay men in los angeles. 1984: in april 1984, the naional cancer insitute announced they had found the cause of. In a joint conference with the pasteur insitute they announced that lav and htlv-iii are idenical and the likely cause of aids. New york and los angeles followed suit within a year: by the end of 1984, there had been 7,699 aids cases and 3,665 aids deaths in the usa with 762 cases reported in europe. There"s living proof they stop aids: aids get the facts, a bad reputaion isn"t all you can get from sleeping around. Mccarthy communist hearings: 1940s and 1950s - america concerned with threat of communism growing in eastern. Europe and china: senator joseph mccarthy capitalized of this fear; made a claim that hundreds of communists had iniltrated the united states government.
