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gay-related immune deficiency

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gay-related immune deficiency,
n the term adopted in the 1980s in reference to AIDS, when it was considered to affect only homosexual males.


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After categorizing the disease as an epidemic in 1981, the CDC drops the term gay-related immune deficiency for the more accurate acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
There still is no known cure for a disease that was discovered in 1981 and originally called Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.
 
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