in the world today. AIDS, (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a

complicated illness, caused by a virus that is passed from person to person.

"The disease was first recognized in 1980 among homosexual men and

injection drug users in New York and California." Several years after it was

recognized, AIDS has become a worldwide epidemic. "By 1995, 477,900

Americans had developed the disease, of whom 295,500 had died, and worldwide

more than 14 million people were believed to be infected."

American researchers initially named the virus that causes AIDS the human

T-lymphotropic virus, type III-or HTLV-III ("A.I.D.S."). After researchers

discovered in the late 1980's that there were several forms of the AIDS virus, the

original virus was renamed the human immunodeficiency virus type 1, or HIV-1

through vaginal or anal intercourse, to male or female partners, is probably less

world today. It is spreading around the world. There is no vaccine yet and a lot of

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