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Why Is Everyone So Surprised
The AIDS epidemic surprised experts by emerging despite advances in medicine. Dr Marcus Conant notes a delusion that major epidemics like plague and smallpox wouldn’t recur, while Dr Mathilde Krim recalls AIDS as a unique, transmissible, fatal disease arising in the late 20th century.
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Marcus Conant
University of California
State of California
Africa
Mathilde Krim
New York
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Hastings Center