Friday, June 5, 2020

Celebrating Pride Month: AIDS first reported 1981


June 5, 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb reported an epidemic disease, which would later be known as AIDS, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the news letter of the Center for Disease Control.  It was the first notice published on AIDS.

He was one of the first researchers to test AZT on AIDS patients.


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