How Did Scientific Awareness of HIV Begin

question 78

Multiple Choice

How did scientific awareness of HIV begin?

• A)The United Nations alerted the world about an epidemic in developing countries.
• B)Gay men protested the lack of adequate funding for research on all sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
• C)Physicians noted rare diseases in healthy young men in major U.S.cities.
• D)The same bacteria causing other STIs were found to have mutated into a new form.

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