[SteveMcKing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965

Thanks, “Teddy”.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

So it wasn’t Reagans fault?

[DBrow]

It’s not an epidemic unless lots of people get it.

Saying that it was epidemic in 1969, except that very few people had it, makes no sense. Some trigger event pushed the virus from endemic to epidemic in a few years. Even then, many fewer caught AIDS than got the flu, so is it really an epidemic, or sudden media focus?

Patient 0? Mariel Boat Lift? Disco? Something got the ball rolling.

[machogirl]

somewhere in that study, they must have had to estimate the number of “partners” that gay men have in a lifetime

bet that number is way larger than the average heterosexual

[Jim Noble]

That there was a sailor with AIDS in Manchester, England in 1959, and an HIV+ black kid in St. Louis in 1969, has been known for twenty years.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

How did AIDS get to Holywood???

On the rear end of a Hudson.

[wintertime]

Ping for later.

[wintertime]

Ping for later.

[DBrow]

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2954500820071029?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

A similar but different view, this article I saw on Drudge mentions a single infected person from Haiti as being the vector into the USA.