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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: An acquired defect of cellular immunity associated with infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a CD4-positive T-lymphocyte count under 200 cells/microliter or less than 14% of total lymphocytes, and increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and malignant neoplasms. Clinical manifestations also include emaciation (wasting) and dementia. These elements reflect criteria for AIDS as defined by the CDC in 1993

Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:

“Abrams: Survival: Endpoint”; AIDS/HIV Treatment Directory, AMFAR Vol. 6 No. 2, undated

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: undated

Accession 2017-058

 Series
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1959-2013

“AD HOC Comm. on Polio Vaccine 4/30/55”; Transcript of Proceedings of AD HOC Committee on Poliomyelitis Vaccine, pgs. 1-143, April 30, 1955

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: April 30, 1955

“ADHOC Comm. on Polio Vaccine 4/29/55”; Transcript of Proceedings National Institutes of Health National Microbiological Institute’s AD HOC Committee on Poliomyelitis Vaccine, April 29, 1955

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: April 29, 1955

“AIDS Causatium/Hodgkiuson (Letter to Nature 8/6/92)”; “AIDS causation” article, August 6, 1992

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: August 6, 1992

“AIDS, gen. ‘95”; Articles from Galveston County The Daily News and The New York Times, including email from Dave Hutchinson, director of Liberated Christians, used for AIDS research, 1995

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1995

“AIDS-Leading Death Cause mw. African City Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 8/17/92 Science”; “AIDS” AND “’Mystery’ Virus Meets the Skeptics”, 1990-1992

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1990-1992

“AIDS-Monkey Link Articles”; Articles on AIDS, 1992

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1992

“AIDS testing, Flaws In”; “Early Testing for AIDS Flawed, Study Shows” by abin Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 1992

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: November 10, 1992

Articles about polio vaccine and AIDS virus, including The Quarterly Review of Biology “Origins and Evolutionary Relationships of Retroviruses, 1989-2000

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1989-2000

Articles about the Duval and Parr court case, 1974-1975

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 18-19
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1974-1975

“AZT/Quality of Life”; “Quality-of-Life Evaluation in a Clinical Trial of Zidovudine Therapy in Patients with Mildly Symptomatic HIV Infection”, June 15, 1992

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: June 15, 1992

“Benveniste”; Interview with Benveniste Tape #2871, undated

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: undated

“Bohammoy, Ford, & Dave Hower”; ONASCO Biotechnologies, Inc. Technical Background, Company Background, and Press Release, 1992

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1992

Bohannon Letters”; Correspondence to and from Robert C. Bohannon, Ph.D., 1992

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1992

Chimp. Virus”; Articles used for research on AIDS, July 1987-May 1990

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: July 1987-May 1990

Cite magazine, The Zoning Issue Fall, 1991

 File — Box 2546, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1991

“Correspondence, ‘95”; Correspondence and articles, 1995

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 23-24
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1995

Correspondence ‘96”; Correspondence and “A Summary Plague: Polio and its Survivors” by Tony Gould, 1995-1996

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: 1995-1996

Cox, Herald Rea”; “Dr. Harry Meyer is Named President of the Medical Research Division”, October 1986

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Reporter/writer Tom Curtis’s personal research and writing materials, 1959-2013. The majority of the articles within the collection were used for research for Curtis’s 1992 Rolling Stone article “Origin of AIDS”. The collection also includes articles written by Curtis for Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone, Houston Post, and others. A few of the materials were photocopied because the originals contained mildew on them from a hurricane. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Curtis’s...
Dates: October 1986