Epidemic

AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence

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The CDC publishes the first report on unusual immune system failures in five previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles, marking the medical recognition of what becomes the AIDS epidemic. President Ronald Reagan’s administration responds with years of complete public silence while the epidemic …

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