[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "AIDS"

[Shapiro, Fred]

How little one knows oneself.

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: Re: Slight Antedating of "AIDS"

Fred, you previously shared this excellent discovery back in Jan. 2022, and
we discussed it on the list.

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On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> AIDS (OED 1982 Aug. 8)
>
> 1982 Boston Globe 27 July 4/1 (Newspapers.com)
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> Because it is the fundamental damage to the body's natural defenses that
> apparently leaves the victims unprotected against the cancers, pneumonia
> and other infections, the disorder has been named Acquired Immunodeficiency
> Disease Syndrome, or AIDS.
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