It’s been 40 years since the first reported cases of AIDS. While treatments have come a long way, a vaccine remains elusive.
Marchers during the 21st annual Gay Pride Parade hold a banner that reads “The AIDS crisis is not over,” June 25, 1990.
As New York’s hospitals filled with pneumonia patients last spring, Dr. Michael Gottlieb flashed back to the earliest days of another mysterious illness.
For months, Gottlieb had vainly treated a young man with an unrelenting fever. The man developed pneumonia from a usually harmless virus and his mouth was covered with a fungus that made it hard for him to swallow or eat.
Another…
