AIDS/SPID un-acronym'ed?

[Michael Flier]

AIDS is the acronym for ACQUIRED Immune Deficiency Syndrome; SPID is the
acronym for Russian Sindrom priobretennogo immunnogo deficita (or
immunodeficita).

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.
>
> Robin LaPasha                          Soviet Literature Scanning Project
> ruslan at acpub.duke.edu                  Duke University
>