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in the early 1960s my male first cousin became immediately wealthy through his talents as a businessman, and gifted hairdresser.

Subsequently he died from a mysterious disease that eventually turned his blood into a "mayonaisse mix of white blood cells, soon to advance into deadly proportions", and kill him.

this was in the early 1960s, when being queer could get you a prison sentence.

i am firmly convinced he was an early victim of AIDS.

Are there any other folks out there that have similar family experiences?

Lord knows, i'm not trolling our sexually Divergent community folks -- since g.a.y. is a censored homophobic word here (an amusingly Huge group), or anyone else they party down with, I'd just like to know if HIV/AIDS has been around a LOT longer than the Government is acknowledging. Its devastating.

It is a family, friend, loving relationship, and community devastating disease. Not asking much, just some Help.

Enjoy.


Edited by em1o, 05 June 2015 - 09:43 PM.

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When I saw ancient history, I thought, awesome! Something about Greece or Persia maybe, even the Roman Empire. Then I get something like this.

 

Well, I have no idea 


Edited by Lioot, 05 June 2015 - 09:35 PM.


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i am totally heterosexual. but this has been tearing up families for at least 50 years. it has to end. we have the greatest medical system on earth.


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I was thinking, pre-Alpha, Advance Battalion, that sort of thing....

 

I can't tell you much about AIDS.  My introduction was Freddy Mercury died,and Magic Johnson lived, circa 1991?


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They taught us this stuff in year 7 (12 years old), horrible stuff.

 

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Hi em10, my limited knowledge on the subject is this;

 

It is thought that the virus known as HIV originated in Chimpanzees. In the late 90's a strain of SIV (Simeon Immune Deficiency) was discovered in West Africa. The first reported case of HIV in humans was found in New York in the early 1980's. Immune Deficiency, specifically Common or Primary Immune Deficiencies were discovered in the early 1950's. However all of these, I think, point to a lack of white blood cells? AIDS is a disease that develops later in HIV cases and in itself is immune to the bodies natural defences as it mutates so quickly that the body cannot fight it.

 

So, this is a very complicated question. You would have to do some very detailed research and have access to your Uncle's medical records to draw any conclusions at all. It is very possible that your Uncles death had nothing at all to do with his lifestyle choices. Also, Just because a disease has a discovery date doesn't mean that it  has not been around for a long, long time. It just means that our means of analysis and detection have evolved with our knowledge of medicine.   


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http://www.avert.org...in-hiv-aids.htmYou could try this for a bit of info. This is the website of a UK-based organization.

 

Wrt approximate date ranges, your relative may have been affected although it is unlikely. I don't know enough about the symptoms of a progressed situation of AIDS and concurrent opportunistic diseases to say much more.

 

In terms of information, HIV is documented "as far back as the 1930s" according to http://www.phac-aspc.../info/1-eng.php .

 

I have no similar experience as the one you have described. I'm sorry for what happened though :c . I have had the chance to listen to some people who lived through the information-dark times and they have mentioned that at the time, nobody knew what was going on besides that people were dropping dead left and right and families and communities were getting heavily damaged.


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Thank you for your time,

 

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was just doing some quick reading on treatment programs, and was rather surprised to see the overlapping of meds & proscribing of programs for what I went through (Hep C), HIV, and cancer, and they're viral-type replicating intensity--which is sorta what got me poking around here.

Hep C can avg 1 trillion replications per day (each virus produces 64 replicants each 20 minute cycle), HIV which varies wildly and is complicated by aggressive mutations, down to cancer which may or may not replicate at all (trivia: all male human babies are born with prostate cancer cells).

looks like i got a summer reading program all set out here!


Edited by em1o, 06 June 2015 - 01:50 PM.

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