He also posts photos of his KS lesions in the window of a local drugstore to alert the community to the disease and encourage people to seek treatment. Calling himself the “KS Poster Boy,” Campbell writes a newspaper column, “Gay Cancer Journal,” on his experiences living with KS for the San Francisco Sentinel.
Fifty leading clinicians attend the event in Bethesda, MD, to discuss KS and other opportunistic infections and to develop recommendations for further studies in epidemiology, virology, and treatment.,
Like PCP, KS is associated with people who have weakened immune systems.
Alvin Friedman-Kien calls CDC to report a cluster of cases of a rare and unusually aggressive cancer- Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS)-among gay men in New York and California. June 5: The same day that the MMWR is published, New York dermatologist Dr.This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what will later become known as the AIDS ( Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) epidemic. Two have already died by the time the report is published and the others will die soon after. Wayne Shandera, and their colleagues report that all the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working. The article describes cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia(PCP), in five young, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Center for Disease Control (CDC) publishes an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR): Pneumocystis Pneumonia-Los Angeles.