32986YunohaHoDe13thetragedy of AIDS, seemingly THE


GREATEST
MEDICAL FAILURE
OF THE LAST FEW DECADES,
can be seen as a sign of progress?
Since its first major outbreak in the early 1980s,
more than 30 million people have died of AIDS, and tens of millions more
have suffered debilitating physical & psychological damage! It was hard to understand
and treat the new epidemic, because AIDS is a uniquely devious disease. Whereas a human
infected with the smallpox virus dies within a few days, an HIV-positive patient may seem perfectly
healthy for weeks or months, yet go on infecting others unknowingly. In addition, the HIV virus itself
does not kill. Rather, it destroys the immune system, thereby exposing to patient to numerous other diseases.
It is these secondary diseases that actually kill AIDS victims. Consequently, when AIDS began to spread, it was
especially difficult to understand what was happening. When two patients were admitted to a New York hospital
in 1981, one ostensibly dying from pneumonia & the other from cancer, it was not at all evident that both were
in fact victims of the HIV virus, which may have infected them months or even years previously. However,
despite the difficulties, after the medical community became aware of the mysterious new plague,
it took scientists just two years to identify it, understand how the virus spreads and suggest
effective ways to slow down
the epidemic.
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