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The acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, caused by human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a lethal disease. Epidemiologists believe it originates from Western Africa. The very first transfer was from green monkeys to humans living nearby, and, already from that point, it filled the entire World.

Back in 1969, the first cases were reported among prostitutes in USA, with symptoms of AIDS. In 1978, homosexuals in USA and Sweden, as well as males in Tanzania and Haiti, demonstrated the same symptoms. But it was only in 1981, when the US Centers for Disease Control reported about the new disease spreading among homosexuals in Los-Angeles and New-York. Around 440 HIV carriers were found in USA, and half of them died soon.

Michael Gottlieb, an American scientist from the US Centers for Disease Control, in 1981, identified the new disease, which seriously affected human immune system, and it was in 1982, when the new disease was called the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

Luc Antoine Montagnier, a French virologist, discovered the virus nature of the new disease in 1983. It was he, who discovered an unknown retrovirus in a lymph node removed from a patient with AIDS.

In 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo, the director of the Institute of Human Virology, claimed he found the true cause of AIDS. He managed to extract the virus from the peripheral blood of humans with AIDS.

In 1987, the World Health Organization approved the name for the new virus, which caused AIDS, and the virus was called human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. It was the same year, when the World Health Organization developed and approved the global strategy for fighting AIDS.

HIV-infection is a new degenerative disease, which destroys specifically the immune system to develop the immune deficiency, and it is the immune deficiency, which opens the doors wide for multiple secondary infections, malignant tumors and pathological autoimmune processes.