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| | AEJMC Archives -- September 1997, week 3 (#22) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The beginnings of the disease in Africa may be traced to a Paris-based Portuguese cab driver who had served in the Angolan civil war, after which he worked as a truck driver between 1976 and 1979, plying the route between Angola and Mozambique, driving through Zaire (Grmek). |
 | | David Serwadda, a Ugandan pulmonary specialist, observed patients who had symptoms of what were then called "the new American disease." In Zambia, Anne Bayley, a surgeon, noted that her young patients who suffered from a voracious and untreatable lesion died because this new version of Kaposi's sarcoma did not respond to medication. |
 | | In October 1983, Peter Piot found that 38 samples of sera from hospital patients in Kinshasa, Zaire, were infected with HIV. |
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