| rdfs:comment | - On May 18, 1981, the New York Native, then America's most influential gay newspaper, published the very first newspaper report on the disease that became known as AIDS. Having heard of a very rare form of cancer that seemed to strike some gay men, Lawrence Mass, who was the paper's medical writer, called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was advised that the rumors of a "gay cancer" were unfounded. He then wrote his story and it was headlined: "Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded." Next month, on June 5, 1981, the CDC published the world's first clinical report on what became AIDS in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). On that same date, the CDC report was picked up and reported by The Los Angeles Times as the first mainstream newspaper coverage of the n
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| abstract | - On May 18, 1981, the New York Native, then America's most influential gay newspaper, published the very first newspaper report on the disease that became known as AIDS. Having heard of a very rare form of cancer that seemed to strike some gay men, Lawrence Mass, who was the paper's medical writer, called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was advised that the rumors of a "gay cancer" were unfounded. He then wrote his story and it was headlined: "Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded." Next month, on June 5, 1981, the CDC published the world's first clinical report on what became AIDS in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). On that same date, the CDC report was picked up and reported by The Los Angeles Times as the first mainstream newspaper coverage of the new disease. Although the Native reported this almost three weeks prior, the June 5th date is often used as the first report of AIDS. However, it was not known as AIDS until September 1982.
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