![]() ![]() “It feels like it’s become a footnote in history.” I lost a lot of great friends, many before they reached 30. “So many people in my community were affected. “HIV/AIDS defined my 20s and 30s,” he said. Minneapolis author Brian Malloy was there at the beginning, fresh from his teenage years and living in different spots around the world: Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Boston, Amsterdam. Since the early 1980s, more than 700,000 people have died of HIV-related illness, according to the Kaiser Family Institute. Center for Disease Control’s weekly newsletter. ![]() This was among the early mainstream news stories about what would come to be known as HIV/AIDS, first reported a month earlier in the U.S. “The cancer often causes swollen lymph glands, and then kills by spreading through the body.” ![]() “The spots generally do not itch or cause other symptoms, often can be mistaken for bruises, sometimes appear as lumps and can turn brown after a period of time,” according to the July 3, 1981, article. Just more than 40 years ago, the New York Times reported on what it described as a “rare cancer” that first showed up physically as violet-colored spots anywhere on the body. ![]()
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