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AIDS was first clinically reported in 1981 by medical professionals in New York and California. These initial diagnoses of AIDS were reported among young male homosexual populations. Thus, many investigators concluded that a homosexual lifestyle, i.e. a behavior, propagated this rare disease. This conclusion was later dismissed when more cases of AIDS were reported in male and female heterosexuals, intravenous drug users, blood recipients, and infants born to mothers with AIDS. What causes AIDS? Researchers believe the human immunodeficiency virus is primarily responsible for the eventual onset of AIDS in most infected individuals. There are now over 400,00 cases of AIDS in the United States and over 1 million cases of AIDS in other countries. However, the numbers of people infected with HIV are much greater. More than one million Americans are infected with the AIDS virus, and there may be as many as 21 million people infected in other countries. AIDS is now the leading cause of death among adults aged 25 to 44 in the United States. By the year 2000 as many as 110 million people worldwide will have been infected with HIV.
