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   Robert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence indicated ...

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3. www.nytimes.com › 1987/10/28 › usBOY'S 1969 DEATH SUGGESTS AIDS INVADED U.S. SEVERAL TIMES

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   Oct 28, 1987 · The evidence that Robert R. died of AIDS in 1969, nearly a decade before what had been the country's first known AIDS cases, indicates that the virus may have been introduced and...

4. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2019/05/15First U.S. AIDS death: Robert Rayford, 16, died in 1969 long ...

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   May 15, 2019 · First U.S. AIDS death: Robert Rayford, 16, died in 1969 long before the epidemic began - The Washington Post. Advertisement. This article was published more than 5 years ago. Retropolis. A...

5. www.mercurynews.com › 2019/05/15 › a-mystery-illnessA mystery illness killed a boy in 1969. Years later, doctors ...

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   May 15, 2019 · The boy, Robert Rayford, died on May 15, 1969, in St. Louis. It would be more than a decade before doctors started seeing similar cases among gay men in New York and California. In 1982, with the...

6. aras.ab.ca › articles › popularRobert R.: The American Mythology of AIDS Begins in St. Louis

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   Even Luc Montagnier, the Pasteur Institute scientist who first claimed to have isolated HIV, has never claimed that it is a direct cause of AIDS. But, because the link is almost never questioned, Robert R. is seen as the first in a parade of people who’ve contracted the HIV virus, then slid inexorably into AIDS.

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   May 26, 2024 · The Untold Story of Robert Rayford: The First Known AIDS Victim in the U.S. - History Tools. by. May 26, 2024. In the spring of 1969, a 16-year-old African American boy named Robert Rayford died alone in a St. Louis hospital, the victim of a disease that wouldn‘t even have a name for another decade.

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   Did Robert R's tissues contain the AIDS virus?

   • About two months ago, molecular biologists at Tulane University in New Orleans examined stored specimens of Robert R.'s tissues for signs of the AIDS virus and found that the 15-year-old was apparently infected with it. ''Our diagnostic tests confirmed the presence of the AIDS virus,'' said Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane.

   BOY'S 1969 DEATH SUGGESTS AIDS INVADED U.S. SEVERAL TIMES

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   Did Robert R suffer in life?

   • Poor Robert R., who surely suffered in life, has been used in death as a foundation for one of the more crippling myths in our history. He and the fourteen friends and acquaintances of mine whose deaths were attributed to AIDS are surely spinning in their graves.

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   Did Rayford detect HIV?

   • The abstract reports the detection of HIV genes in Rayford's samples which were very similar to the HIV IIIB isolate which was discovered in France in the 1980s, and became widely used as a laboratory reference isolate (this study has never been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal).

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9. www.historyhit.com › first-us-aids-death-who-wasFirst US AIDS Death: Who Was Robert Rayford? | History Hit

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   Sep 1, 2022 · Though never definitely proven, if the findings were factual, Rayford would have had the earliest recorded case of AIDS in the United States. Timeline. 20th Century America. In early 1968, a 16-year-old boy called Robert Rayford admitted himself to the City Hospital in St. Louis. He was weak, emaciated, riddled with...