Man has AIDS in 1950s

[Olav Hungnes]

James White (accroya at ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: In <3irfd6$25a at newsbf02.news.aol.com> issan at aol.com (Issan) writes: 

: >
: >The case is documented -- most recently in the Coming Plagues.  The 
: case
: >occurs in 1959 in England, of a sailor, in Manchester as I recollect. 
: >Blood tested after ELISa for HIV developed showed sailor in question 
: died
: >of AIDS developing from HIV-1.
: >

: Can someone verify if a similar story is documented. There was an 
: article in the LA Times in the spring of 1988 about a teenage boy who 
: died of a mysterious disease in 1969. His doctor was so perplexed, he 
: saved tissue and blood samples. When HIV arose, the blood was tested 
: positive for HIV. I didn't save the article, nor did I hear anything 
: else about it.

: Was this confirmed?

: Thanks,
: JW

We have a documented case in Norway, published as a letter to Lancet 
(Froland, S.S., Jenum, P., Lindboe, C.F., Wefring, K.W., Linnestad, 
P.J., Bohmer, T.: HIV-1 infection in Norwegian family before 1970. Lancet 
June 11, 1988, p 1344-45).
A sailor developed diffuse symptoms in 1966; his wife started having
AIDS-compatible symptoms the year after. In this year (1967) they had a 
child, who was symptom-free until two years old, when she contracted 
several opportunistic infections. All three persons died in 1976; the 
child in January, the father in April, and the mother in December. Two 
children born before 1966 survive. In 1988 stored sera were tested 
positive by Western blot and EIA (the father's specimen was from 1971, 
the mother's from 1973, and the child's from 1971). The two surviving 
children were tested HIV negative.
At the time of publication, this was the earliest documented case of AIDS 
in children and of AIDS in Europe. That is, pathology coupled to HIV 
serology. 

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