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Robert Rayford. Robert Lee Rayford [1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] 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 ...
- May 15, 1969 (aged 16), St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
- AIDS-related complications
- February 3, 1953, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
- Alleged first known AIDS death in the United States
May 15, 2019 · Anthony Fauci, a renowned AIDS expert and head of infectious-disease research at the National Institutes of Health, said the inferior state of antibody tests at the time make the case of Robert R ...
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Sep 1, 2022 · The red ribbon is the universal symbol of awareness and support for people living with HIV. 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 stubborn infections and, though unknown to doctors initially, plagued with cancerous lesions known as Kaposi ...
The American Mythology of AIDS Begins in St. Louis. Robert R. died on May 16, 1969. He spent all fifteen or sixteen years of his life (No one is sure of his date of birth) in a poor African American ghetto in St. Louis. Of his truncated life, little else is known. In the words of Dr. Memory Elvin-Lewis, who attended to him during his final days ...
Aug 9, 2021 · CASE SHAKES THEORIES OF AIDS ORIGIN. Long before Robert R. finally entered the hospital, his body had begun to fail him in many ways. For nearly two years his lower legs and genitals had been ...
Nov 8, 2016 · The sad story of Robert Rayford (aka Robert R), the first documented case of HIV/AIDS in the United States, shows that if timing had been a little bit different, the AIDS epidemic could have happened a decade earlier than it did, and its epicenter could have been St. Louis instead of New York. His story raises some uncomfortable questions.
May 15, 2019 · Anthony Fauci, a renowned AIDS expert and head of infectious-disease research at the National Institutes of Health, said the inferior state of antibody tests at the time make the case of Robert R ...
