Abstract
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a name officially coined in September 1982, was recognized and introduced as epidemic in mid-1981 via two now famous reports in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC, 1981a, 1981b). These reports focused on the incidence of two rare diseases (Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia) in gay men in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco since 1979. Almost immediately, AIDS occurrence was reported in drug users and it was recognized in Europe and Africa.
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