The
first descriptions of AIDS cases in the scientific
literature are from the early 1980s. They suggest a
possible acquired immune deficiency as the underlying
factor responsible for the increase of particular
recurring diseases among very marginal groups of people
in certain American conurbations such as New York, San
Francisco and Los Angeles. All the members of these
particular risk groups were identified as having
health-hazardous lifestyles. The diseases were
exclusively limited to the behavioural risk groups.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, as the USA’s
Centres for Disease Control (CDC) named it in 1981, was
identified as a possible behavioural disease.
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