Early Arrival: HIV came from Haiti to United States

wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.sciencenews.org)

An analysis of 25-year-old blood samples pushes the arrival of HIV in the United States back to about 1969, 12 years before AIDS was first described by a doctor in Los Angeles. The virus came from Haiti, which served as a Western Hemisphere toehold for the early stages of the epidemic starting in the mid-1960s, according to the analysis.

Keywords: HIV AIDS history Haiti demographics epidemics human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) united states