By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The AIDS virus
invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely
by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the
world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday. Michael
Worobey, a University of Arizona evolutionary biologist, said the 1969
U.S. entry date is earlier than some experts had believed. The
timeline laid out in the study led by Worobey indicates that HIV
infections were occurring in the United States for roughly 12 years
before AIDS was first recognized by scientists as a disease in 1981.
Many people had died by that point.
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