[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.

[Veto!]

Thanks.

[5th MEB]

Wouldn’t doubt it for a second. I am a pretty omnivorous reader and took a lot of classes in public health and epidemiology (quite a few years ago), just after the AIDS virus was identified.
There were several articles related to diseases and deaths that had gone unidentified since the mid to late fifties in France and England. The deaths were mainly among merchant marine sailors and some junior military personnel. Blood and tissue samples had been kept for future identification if possible; when tested in the early 90’s because of similar case histories they were found to contain AIDS virus and antibodies.
Modern transportation and changing social practices seems in my opinion to have let this killer out of the bottle.