[Veto!]

black teenager in St. Louis who died from it in the late 1960s. The doctors were mystified about his illness, and he was uncommunicative, so they saved a sample of his blood, and when the AIDS epidemic exploded they had it tested and found that he had had AIDS.

Wow. I hadn't heard that. Would be very interested if you can remember the source of this info.

[Verginius Rufus]

It was in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, probably sometime in the 1990s--I saw it in the Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois (before it was moved to its new location). Sorry I can't narrow it down further...and I don't remember the boy's name.