The AIDS virus is one of the most deadly and most wide spread diseases in the
modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around the United States
began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare pneumonia
caused by an organism called Penumocystis carini. These patients then went on to
develop many other new and rare complications that had previously been seen only in
patients with severely damaged immune systems. The Center for Disease Control in
the United States named this new epidemic the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
and defined it by a spec…
