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Headline:

Earliest known AIDS case traced to 1959

Newspaper Article Synopsis:

New evidence based on a study of 1,213 blood samples gathered in Africa over 23 years suggests that the AIDS virus first infected people in the 1940s or early '50s.

Newspaper Article Source:

News Services. Earliest known AIDS case traced to 1959. Star Tribune, 1998 February 4: A6(col.1).

Newspaper Article Referred to:

Author(s): Dr. Toufu Zhu (University of Washington)
Conference: Fifth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (Chicago)

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