AIDS/SPID un-acronym'ed?

[Bill Derbyshire]

SPID is the Russian term for AIDS, and I regret that I too have forgotten
what the acronym stands for.    Bill Derbyshire

On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, Robin LaPasha wrote:

> Okay, the students have SPID as a vocab word but I've forgotten
> what it stands for.  (I know that the English is Auto-Immune
> Deficiency Syndrome...)  And my dictionaries are too old.  Anyone?
> Thanks in advance, private email is fine.