Search results
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.
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...
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 1969,...
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. 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...
We can ask many questions about Robert Rayford’s death. How did Rayford contract the virus more than a decade before HIV/AIDS was identified and reached epidemic proportions in the 1980s? How many people had suffered and died from the mysterious disease before it was identified?
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 its...
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...
Related searches
