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1959: First HIV Sample, Possible First Known AIDS Death In 1959, a British man named David Carr dies of what is now suspected to be AIDS in Manchester, England. That same year, researchers take a sample of blood from an anonymous Congolese man that proves to be arguably the first confirmed HIV-1 sample. It is unknown what happened to the donor. Here: The AIDS virus attacks a human blood cell. The AIDS pandemic didn’t just happen overnight — AIDS: History of a Plague

1959: First HIV Sample, Possible First Known AIDS Death

In 1959, a British man named David Carr dies of what is now suspected to be AIDS in Manchester, England. That same year, researchers take a sample of blood from an anonymous Congolese man that proves to be arguably the first confirmed HIV-1 sample. It is unknown what happened to the donor. Here: The AIDS virus attacks a human blood cell.

The AIDS pandemic didn’t just happen overnight — AIDS: History of a Plague

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