Colven Roy
Division of Dermatology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
Dermatol Clin. 2006 Oct;24(4):407-12, v. doi: 10.1016/j.det.2006.05.001.
Though history will mark June 1981 as the birthday of the AIDS pandemic, the first true case of the syndrome and its cause originated years before in West-Central Africa. History also highlights the irony that the discovery of AIDS, the detection of its cause, and the development of drugs for its treatment, all occurred far from its origin, and now, 25 years later, the greatest burden of this disease is where it is believed to have started.
尽管历史将把1981年6月标记为艾滋病大流行的诞生日，但该综合征的首个真正病例及其病因早在数年前就起源于非洲中西部。历史还凸显了这样一个具有讽刺意味的事实：艾滋病的发现、其病因的查明以及治疗药物的研发，所有这些都发生在远离其起源地的地方，而如今，25年后，这种疾病最沉重的负担却在人们认为它开始的地方。
