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...have broken down. Gottlieb and an EIS agent based in Los Angeles reported the grim news in CDC's weekly publication. Almost simultaneously, Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien of New York University noted that several of his homosexual patients had the same weakened immune systems and were suffering from Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare cancer of the skin usually seen only in older men. Later that summer Dr. Harold Jaffe of CDC, while attending a conference in California, was told of an additional case of a young homosexual suffering from Kaposi...
...remained so for months on end. By summer, two small dark spots had appeared on his legs. At the urging of a friend, Jack, a homosexual, went to a doctor. The swollen glands were a sign that his immune system was depressed; the penny-size leg spots were Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the so-called gay cancer. During the next half-year, Jack (not his real name) began chemotherapy and struggled against a series of infections. In the process, he lost 30 Ibs., all of his hair, most of his hearing and, because of chronic irritation to his throat...
...begins with swollen glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them. In the 17 months that the CDC has been tracking the epidemic, a total of 827 cases of AIDS have been reported in 33 states; 312 have ended...
...cases occurred in New York, 20% in California. More to the point, AIDS has been traced from sexual partner to partner. In one Los Angeles study, nine out of 13 patients had had sexual contact with one another. In San Francisco, six pairs of "roommates" have been stricken with Kaposi's sarcoma...
Because of the widespread concern over AIDS, more victims are seeking medical attention at the first signs of the disease. Often these include low-grade fever, swollen glands and general malaise. Early detection makes it easier to control infections with antibiotics and to treat Kaposi's by surgical excision of lesions, chemotherapy and, more recently, the experimental use of interferon. The discovery that Kaposi's is more likely to strike a certain genetic type has made high-risk individuals easier to identify...