In it he summarizes findings from a then
not widely read periodical from the US Centers
for Disease Control called Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report (MMWR)
No one could
know at that time what this initial cluster of
what had previously been a rare tumor, Kaposi’s
sarcoma (KS)
now appearing in gay men living
in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York
would mean. In the previous month, MMWR
had also published another report of five cases
of pneumonia caused by a rarely seen organism
called Pneumocystis carinii
The patients in this report
were also gay men, living in Los Angeles