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Chronology of AIDS in San Francisco, 1984
January
- January 12 NEJM publishes CDC documentation of first 18 transfusion-associated AIDS cases.
- Annals of Internal Medicine reports case of heterosexual transmission of AIDS before overt manifestation of disease (hemophiliac to wife).
- American Red Cross, American Association of Blood Banks, and Council of Community Blood Centers oppose proposal to screen out high-risk groups from blood donor pool.
February
- Chermann in talks in U.S. states that French have discovered AIDS virus.
March
- March 2-4 19th Annual San Francisco Cancer Symposium, "Cancer and AIDS". Conant, Abrams, Wofsy, Ziegler, Volberding speak.
- March 6 Blood industry task force meets on surrogate testing; blood bankers oppose it.
- March 26 Government allots $1.1 million to develop AIDS antibody test to seven institutions, including Irwin Memorial and Stanford blood banks.
- President of New York Blood Center continues to deny HIV transmission by blood.
- Larry Littlejohn, gay activist, sponsors San Francisco ballot initiative to close baths.
April
- April 9 Silverman and state and San Francisco health officials outlaw sex in bathhouses, rather than close them.
- April 24 Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, announces discovery by Gallo et al. of AIDS virus, that an AIDS test will be available soon, and that a vaccine will be available in 18-24 months. Gallo had not yet published his results.
- Feinstein issues first formal statement that Silverman should close baths. Silverman responds that he will formulate guidelines banning sex activity in baths that spreads AIDS.
- NIH applies for patents on Gallo's AIDS antibody test, a diagnostic kit based on Western blot technique.
May
- May 1 IMBB and other Bay Area blood banks begin testing blood for hepatitis B core antigen.
- Gallo publishes four reports and Montagnier one, in Science, linking AIDS with a new retrovirus which Gallo calls HTLV-III and Montagnier calls LAV.
- Board of Supervisor's president Wendy Nelder chides Silverstein for "shameful" delays in proposing sex guidelines for baths. Silverman replies that he is waiting for board to transfer authority to regulate baths from police to health department.
- Rock Hudson diagnosed with AIDS.
Summer
- Silverman orders bathhouse surveillance for unsafe sex.
June
- Board of Supervisors committee delays action on giving health department authority to regulate baths until after Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
- IMBB adopts directed blood donation program.
July
- Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
August
- After gay lobbying, Board of Supervisors tables move to give Silverman regulatory power over baths, killing his idea to promulgate sex guidelines for baths.
- Levy et al. isolate virus, ARV, which they claim to cause AIDS.
September
- Chiron Corp. announces cloning and sequencing of ARV genome.
- Giovanni Battista Rossi in Italy isolates AIDS virus.
- 60 physicians at Pacific Medical Center sign petition asking baths to be closed.
October
- October 9 Silverman closes baths and private sex clubs as "menace" to public health. Baths reopen hours later.
- Feinstein forms Mayors Advisory Committee on AIDS.
- FDA approves Lyphomed's injectable pentamidine for PCP and gives it orphan drug status.
- Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, SFDPH, begins surveillance of average monthly AIDS bed census.
November
- November 28 San Franciso Superior Court Judge Roy Wonder rules baths can remain open if monitored for safe sex practices every 10 minutes.
- Gallo et al. clone HTLV-III.
December
- Montagnier et al. report cloning of LAV; they also report CD4 molecule as LAV receptor.
- December 26 Simon Wain-Hobson, Pierre Sonigo, Olivier Danos, Stewart Cole, and Marc Alizon at Pasteur Institute publish LAV nucleic acid sequence in Cell.
- Silverman resigns as director of SFDPH.
- 90 reported cases of transfusion AIDS; 49 reported cases of Factor VIII hemophilia cases.
- CDC recommends use of heat-treated blood products for hemophiliacs; other specialists differ.
- Heat-treated blood products become commercially available.
- National Kaposi's Sarcoma Reasearch and Foundation renamed San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
You may send comments or inquiries about the AIDS Chronology to shughes@library.berkeley.edu.
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