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Pneumocystis Bio: A Case Study
In 1981, in the Los Angeles area, a select group of cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia began appearing. Scientist and doctors began investigating to find the etiology of the epidemic. They soon were able to correlate the appearance of this disease with Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that affects the skin and blood vessels. The greatest group of people affected were all young homosexual males; they all showed a loss of immune function.
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