PCB 4232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, World Health Organization, Blood Transfusion
18 Dec 2016
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June 5 1981 first cdc report describing 5 patients with pneumocytis. Pneumonia --- unofficial beginning of aids epidemic in the united states. July 3 1981 26 patients with opportunistic infections. Disease was initially called grid (gay related immune deficiency) Late 1981 reports of injection drug users in nyc. 1982 links to heterosexual transmission then blood transfusion receptients and hemophiliacs. 1983 first case of mother-to-child transmission in new jersey. When they were trying to find out what aids was caused by clustering of cases strongly suggested that a transmissible agent (virus) was involved. 1983 aids virus was discovered and named lav. 1984 gallo isolated virus and named it htlv-iii discovered by barre sinnoussi, cherman, and montagnier. 1986 htlv-iii / lav was renamed hiv human immunodeficiency virus. Hiv-2 (less pathogenic, progress slower) was discovered in 1985. 1988 between 500,000 and one million people in europe were infected by 2004 39. 4 million worldwide were infected.
