Within days, CDC receives reports from around the nation of similar cases of PCP, KS, and other opportunistic infections among gay men.
June 5-6: The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle report on the MMWR article.Like PCP, KS is associated with people who have weakened immune systems. Alvin Friedman-Kien calls CDC to report a cluster of cases of a rare and unusually aggressive cancer- Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS)-among gay men in New York and California. June 5: The same day that the MMWR is published, New York dermatologist Dr.This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what will later become known as the AIDS ( Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) epidemic. Two have already died by the time the report is published and the others will die soon after. Wayne Shandera, and their colleagues report that all the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working. The article describes cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia(PCP), in five young, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Center for Disease Control (CDC) publishes an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR): Pneumocystis Pneumonia-Los Angeles.
