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Kimberly Ann Bergalis (January 19, 1968 – December 8, 1991) was an American woman who was one of six patients purportedly infected with HIV by dentist David J. Acer, who was infected with HIV and died of AIDS on September 3, 1990.
The absence of laboratory testing identification references against this patient's name led to police visiting the man who readily disclosed that he had AIDS and that he had been called in for a blood test by Schmidt on the evening in question.
Dugas worked as a flight attendant for Air Canada and died in Quebec City in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. In March 1984, a study tracked Dugas, along with other gay and bisexual men, to indicate his role in a particular cluster of 40 AIDS cases in the United States. He was named "Patient O" with "O ...
David J. Acer (November 11, 1949 – September 3, 1990) was an American dentist who allegedly infected six of his patients, including Kimberly Bergalis, with HIV. [1] The Acer case is considered the first documented HIV transmission from a healthcare worker to a patient in the United States, [2] though the means of transmission remain unknown. [3]
She soon learned that she had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, and died of AIDS in 1988. 1987: Designing Women: CBS: Kendall Dobbs: Tony Goldwyn: In "Killing All the Right People", Kendall is a young gay man with AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. 1987: The Equalizer: CBS: Mickey Robertson: Corey Carrier
Since 1981, nearly 39 million people globally have died from AIDS-related illnesses, the result of HIV if left untreated. In the 1980s and '90s, the height of the epidemic, gay and bisexual men ...
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday.
The TikTok has since been viewed more than 888,000 times and garnered 164,000 likes; the comments are filled with notes from other users who have loved ones who died from HIV or AIDS, or those who ...