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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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