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The AIDS virus is one of the most deadly and most wide spread diseases
in the modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around the
United States began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare
pneumonia caused by an organism called Penumocystis carini. These patients then
went on to develop many other new and rare complications that had previously
been seen only in patients with severely damaged immune systems. The Center for
Disease Control in the United States named this new epidemic the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome and defined it by a specific set of symptoms. In 1983,
researchers finally identified the virus that caused AIDS. They named the virus
the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. AIDS causes the immune system of the
infected patient to become much less efficient until it stops working altogether.


The first drug that was approved by the American Food and Drug
administration for use in treating the AIDS virus is called...

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