By Erika Mills ~ In the June 5, 1981 edn of the Morbidy and Mortaly Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC scribed a rare lung fectn among a group of gay men Los Angel. This article, tled “Pnmocystis Pnmonia—Los Angel,” marked the first official report of what would later be named AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency…
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- GAY HISTORY: JUNE 5, 1981. PNMOCYSTIS PNMONIA. LOS ANGEL.
- ATE GAY DIAGNOSED WH PNMONIA, ASKS FOR PRAYERS
GAY HISTORY: JUNE 5, 1981. PNMOCYSTIS PNMONIA. LOS ANGEL.
* gay pneumonia *
In the June 5, 1981 edn of the Morbidy and Mortaly Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC scribed a rare lung fectn among a group of gay men Los Angel. A few physicians and public health workers astal ci had noticed strange opportunistic fectns otherwise healthy gay men the years prr, but the report served to put the phenomenon on rerd. The disease spread quickly the time that followed, vastatg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) and mory muni, while policymakers’ activy and societal stigma pound the issue.
The report tails the s of five patients—all young and prevly healthy gay men, wh life threateng pnmocystis pnmonia (PCP), an fectn that rarely ser illns healthy adults. Pnmocystis rii pnmonia homosexual men. The clil rerds and radgraphs of 12 homosexual men wh symptomatic bpsy-proved Pnmocystic rii pnmonia were reviewed.
ATE GAY DIAGNOSED WH PNMONIA, ASKS FOR PRAYERS
Atypil Pnmocystis rii pnmonia homosexual men wh unual immunoficiency.
Radgraphic patterns of opportunistic lung fectns and Kaposi sara homosexual men. An outbreak of Pnmocystis rii pnmonia homosexual men.
Rii pnmonia adult homosexual men, nfirmed by bpsy rults, are reported. Past or ncurrent cytomegalovis fectn and homosexualy were the only mon epimlogic featur all five patients.