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September 21: San Francisco dermatologist Dr.Fifty leading clinicians attend the event in Bethesda, MD, to discuss KS and other opportunistic infections and to develop recommendations for further studies in epidemiology, virology, and treatment., September 15: The National Cancer Institute and CDC cosponsor the first conference to address the new epidemic.Of the 108 cases reported to date, 107 are male, 94% of those whose sexual orientation is known are gay/bisexual, and 40% of all patients have already died. August 28: The latest MMWR article, “ Follow-Up on Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia,” reports that CDC has received information on 70 additional cases of KS and/or PCP since the July 3 edition.The plea raises $6,635-essentially the only new money, public or private, that will be raised to fight the epidemic for the remainder of the year. Friedman-Kien to speak, and he asks the group to contribute money to support his research because he has no access to rapid funding. August 11: Acclaimed writer and film producer Larry Kramer holds a meeting of over 80 gay men in his New York City apartment to discuss the burgeoning epidemic.On the same day, the New York Times publishes an article entitled “ Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” At this point, the term “ gay cancer” enters the public lexicon.

July 3: CDC releases another MMWR, “ Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia Among Homosexual Men - New York City and California,” with information on KS and PCP among 26 gay men (25 white and one black).

July 2: The Bay Area Reporter, a weekly newspaper for the gay and lesbian community in San Francisco, publishes its first mention of “Gay Men’s Pneumonia.” The short item encourages gay men who are experiencing progressive shortness of breath to see their physicians.

He never leaves the Center and dies on October 28.

June 16: A 35-year-old, white gay man who is exhibiting symptoms of severe immunodeficiency is the first person with AIDS to be admitted to the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

June 8: In response to these reports, CDC establishes the Task Force on Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections to identify risk factors and to develop a case definition for the as-yet-unnamed syndrome so that CDC can begin national surveillance of new cases.,.

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.