1982
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For almost a year after the CDC's First Reports, the new syndrome had no official name. The press called it "gay cancer," and some researchers used the term Gay Related Immune Deficiency, or GRID, because nearly all of the first reported cases were in gay men.
On May 11, 1982, The New York Times published "New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials" by Lawrence K. Altman, the first mention of GRID in the paper. Altman wrote that researchers were calling the disorder either A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, and that it had been reported in 20 states and seven…
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For almost a year after the CDC's First Reports, the new syndrome had no official name. The press called it "gay cancer," and some researchers used the term Gay Related Immune Deficiency, or GRID, because nearly all of the first reported cases were in gay men.
On May 11, 1982, The New York Times published "New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials" by Lawrence K. Altman, the first mention of GRID in the paper. Altman wrote that researchers were calling the disorder either A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, and that it had been reported…
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GRID
For almost a year after the CDC's First Reports, the new syndrome had no official name. The press called it "gay cancer," and some researchers used the term Gay Related Immune Deficiency, or GRID, because nearly all of the first reported cases were in gay men.
On May 11, 1982, The New York Times published "New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials" by Lawrence K. Altman, the first mention of GRID in the paper. Altman wrote that researchers were calling the disorder either A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, and that it had been reported in 20 states and seven countries. The label spread quickly, and it deepened the public perception that the disease affected only gay men.
Within two months the evidence pointed elsewhere. On July 9, 1982, the CDC reported 34 cases among Haitians living in the United States, 30 of them men, the same pattern doctors were documenting in the Haiti KS Cases. On July 16, 1982, it reported Pneumocystis carinii…