Technically, no one dies of the human immunodeficiency virus. They die of whatever infections they get after HIV has destroyed their immune system. Is why it was able to circulate in the population for decades before the CDC was able to pinpoint that all these weird infections and people with an unexplained (perhaps genetic) lack of immunity/wrecked immune systems did indeed have a cause, and weren't just random, unrelated weirdnesses.
I was about 12, my mother was a hospital dictatypist, in 1980 when this case walked in, his lungs full of some vaginal fungus. Had everyone in a real tizzy.
Technically, no one dies of the human immunodeficiency virus. They die of whatever infections they get after HIV has destroyed their immune system. Is why it was able to circulate in the population for decades before the CDC was able to pinpoint that all these weird infections and people with an unexplained (perhaps genetic) lack of immunity/wrecked immune systems did indeed have a cause, and weren't just random, unrelated weirdnesses.
I was about 12, my mother was a hospital dictatypist, in 1980 when this case walked in, his lungs full of some vaginal fungus. Had everyone in a real tizzy.