English

The age of Aids

ATV
2006-12-07
4
The program begins with the medical and scientific mysterythat emerged in 1981 when five gay men in Los Angeles werediagnosed with a new disease. The film documents the frantic search by American and European scientists and epidemiologists to find the source of the deadly infectionas they tracked its spread among gay men, intravenous drugusers, and hemophiliacs, and then into the general population. The trail led them back in time, from major American and European cities to Haiti and finally to the Congo.