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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 ...
May 26, 2024 · 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. Described by doctors as "shy" and "withdrawn," Rayford had been admitted to the hospital a year earlier with a litany of baffling symptoms ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Sep 27, 2021. By. Theodore Kerr. suravikin via iStock. Earlier this year, the American Journal of Public Health published an editorial that includes Robert Rayford, who died with HIV in...
Apr 8, 2019 · By all accounts, Robert fought hard against his declining health, and remained positive until his dying day on May 15, 1969. The doctors and medical staff were charmed by the simple kid, and ...
Sep 1, 2022 · In late 1968, Rayford’s condition appeared to improve, but by early 1969 his symptoms had worsened; he had severe difficulty breathing and his white cell count was dangerously low. Doctors realised that his immune system was dysfunctional, and he died of pneumonia on 15 May 1969.
May 15, 2019 · A mystery illness killed a boy in 1969. Years later, doctors believed they’d learned what it was: AIDS. Robert Rayford challenged the narrative about the epidemic. By Steve Hendrix. May 15,...
May 13, 2019 · Robert Rayford died on May 15, 1969, of a mysterious illness later identified as HIV, 13 years before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first reported on the disease in...
