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Originally Posted by pdurrant
AIDS is a lot older than the 1980s. Stored samples from the fifties have been found to contain HIV.
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True. AIDS and many other diseases have been in existance for decades (or since recorded time) but not recognized as the specific disease they are known as today. I'm certainly not an expert but it's my understanding that people don't actually die from AIDS. They die from the complications of otherwise minor (relatively speaking) conditions exacerbated by the inability of the body to fight off these conditions. So that the cause of death is actually from flu, infection, pneumonia, etc. I'm sure that people have been dying from these causes for ages
with the underlying factor being AIDS but science wasn't advanced enough at the time to isolate and recognize this as an individual condition in and of itself as it is now.
Sorry again. Back to the topic at hand . . .
(I'm gonna shut up now.)