1983
- The CDC warns that AIDS may spread by heterosexual sex and by mother-to-child transmission.
- The U.S. Public Health Service asks "members of groups at increased risk for AIDS" to stop donating blood.
- Heterosexual spread of AIDS in Africa is confirmed.
- Public apprehension grows। False rumors of "household spread" abound। In New York, landlords are reported to evict AIDS patients.
1983
Drs. Montagnier (shown) and Barre-Sinoussi discover the AIDS virus.
Pasteur Institute researchers Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi isolate a virus from the swollen lymph gland of an AIDS patient। They called it lymphadenopathy-associated virus or LAV. Independently, UCSF researcher Jay Levy isolates ARV — AIDS-related virus. Not until 1986 does everybody agree to call the virus HIV: human immunodeficiency virus.
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