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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 183 Collections and/or Records:

“Galveston (T-H clip)”; “Offshore, OFFBEAT” article, photographs by Melanie Acevedo, September 1995

 File — Box 2544, 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: September 1995

“Genentech”; The Wall Street Journal, Vol. XCVI No. 6, July 11-12, 1995

 File — Box 2544, 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: July 11-12, 1995

“Gerald Meyers Interview”; Interview with Gerald Myers-Tape No. 2868 & 2870, undated

 File — Box 2544, 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: undated

“Health Risk Valuation Based on Public Consent”; “Health Risk Valuations Based on Public Consent” article by E.S. Cassedy, undated

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 38
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

History of the Royal Society, articles for AIDS research, and A Brief History of the Royal Society by E.N. DA C. Andrade, F.R.S., 1960-2000

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 48
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: 1960-2000

“Hooper Response to Plotkin”; First draft of “Which Untruths; Which Consequences?” by Edward Hooper, September 26, 2000

 File — Box 2544, 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: September 26, 2000

“Hooper/RS”; “Experimental Oral Polio Vaccines and AIDS” by Edward Hooper, September 11-12, 2000

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 17
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: September 11-12, 2000

Houston Press newspaper, March 12-18, 1992

 File — Box 2546, Folder: 3
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: March 12-18, 1992

“Human Spumavirus antibodies in seva from Africans Mahnke, ‘92”; Archives of Virology “Human Spumavirus antibodies in sera from African Patients”, 1992

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 37
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

“Iatrogenic Theory on AIDS (New) Hovotowitz, Kyle, Contwell”; Email of “A New Theory on the Iatrogenic Origin of AIDS” by Leonard G. Horowitz, September 16, 2000

 File — Box 2544, 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: September 16, 2000

“Immunity/Zinkernagel comment”; Email containing “What is Missing in Immunology to Understand Immunity” by Rolf M. Zinkernagel, September 29, 2000

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 14
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: September 29, 2000

“Infection of Human Cells w/SIV, SIV/Wenner, et al, 1990”; “Productive Infection of Both CD4+ and CD4- Human Cell Lines with HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV agm”, 1990

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 63
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

“Is HIV New?”; Email of articles on AIDS, September 20, 2000

 File — Box 2544, 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: September 20, 2000

“John Beale R.S.”; “Poliovaccine and Retroviruses” by John Beale and Florian Horaud, undated

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 11
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

“Jonathan Allen Affidavit ‘92”; Affidavit of Jonathan Allen, D.V.M., July 23, 1993

 File — Box 2543, Folder: 50
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 23, 1993

“Koprowski: Counterparts of Human Disease in Animals”; “Counterparts of Human Viral Disease in Animals” by Hilary Koprowski, 1957

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 42
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: 1957

“Koprowski-Inquirer Story May 1992”; Philadelphia Inquirer articles, 1992

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 5
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

“Koprowski, News Clips, AIDS”; Wistar Researcher Claims AIDS Allegations are ‘Speculation’ by Sarah Kotler, March 4-April 24, 1992

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 53
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: March 4-April 24, 1992

“Koprowski Statement”; Press Release and report on AIDS related viruses found in 1950s, 2000

 File — Box 2544, Folder: 12
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: 2000

“Kyle, Transcript”; Kyle Interview Transcript Tape 1 Side A,, undated

 File — Box 2545, Folder: 6
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