The deaths of the former first lady and the doctor who helped uncover the epidemic take us back to the battleground that was Aids in the 80s – a history we should never forgetWe learned of two Reagan-era deaths this past weekend,both of people who figure prominently in how we understand Aids as an American fable. On Saturday, Dr Myron Schultz’s death at age 81 was announced. The original York Times wrote that his “detection of a cluster of pneumonia cases in the early 1980s helped public health officials identify the Aids epidemic”.
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Source: theguardian.com