HIV in America: New York City Was First 'Hub'
Also, the surprising true story of 'Patient Zero'
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by Michael Smith
North American Correspondent, MedPage Today October 26, 2016
The virus that eventually brought HIV/AIDS to light probably arrived in the U.S. in 1970 or 1971, immigrating from Africa though Haiti, researchers said.
And the center of the early American epidemic was New York City, according to Michael Worobey, DPhil, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and colleagues.
The findings come from a genetic analysis of HIV-positive blood samples stored in 1978 and 1979, long before the virus and its immune-damaging effects were discovered, Worobey and colleagues are reporting online in Nature.
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