"Gay cancer," later called GRID, (Gay Related Immuno Deficiency) claims...

"Gay cancer," later called GRID, (Gay Related Immuno Deficiency) claims 121 deaths in the U.S. since the mid-1970s.

Scientists later found evidence that the disease existed in the world for some years prior, i.e., subsequent analysis of a blood sample of a Bantu man, who died of an unidentified illness in the Belgian Congo in 1959, made him the first confirmed case of an HIV infection.

Extra information: 

- On June 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes the first report on a medical condition soon to be known as AIDS: an article in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report titled "Pneumocystis: Los Angeles." 

- On July 3rd, a small article in The New York Times reports the outbreak of a rare cancer among 41 gay men in New York and California.

- The Centers for Disease Control report that cases of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis are inexplicably increasing nation-wide. More than 90 percent of the cases are diagnosed in gay men.