18 juin 1982 - NYT Designates AIDS as "GRID"

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Article, via NYT Website:

"Federal epidemiologists investigating a serious disorder of the body's immune system that has mostly afflicted male homosexuals reported new evidence yesterday suggesting that the outbreak is linked to an infectious agent.

''We think the findings are important but they don't solve the problem,'' Dr. Harold W. Jaffe, one of the epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said in an interview. ''They do show pretty convincingly that this is not occurring as a random event among homosexual men.''

No specific infectious agent has been identified, he said, but scientists at the Atlanta facilities are intensifying laboratory efforts to identify a virus, bacteria or other micro-organism as a possible cause.

The immune system breakdown has been implicated in a rare form of cancer, called Kaposi's sarcoma, and seems to lead to a wide variety of serious disorders. Scientists have designated the immune disorder GRID, for ''gay-related immunodeficiency disease.'' They Suspected Infectious Agent"

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