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Alma mater. University of Florida. Known for. First known case of clinically-transmitted HIV. 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. [ 1]
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) [ 1] was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS. As a hemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated factor VIII blood ...
1984–present. Known for. Caring for AIDS patients. Frances Ruth Coker Burks (born March 19, 1959), [ 1] also known as the Cemetery Angel, is a former caregiver of AIDS crisis patients and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas. [ 2] During the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, she used her salary as a real estate agent to care for AIDS ...
Timothy Ray Brown (March 11, 1966 [1] – September 29, 2020) was an American considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. [2] [3] Brown was called "The Berlin Patient" at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, where his cure was first announced, in order to preserve his anonymity. He chose to come forward in ...
Cowell was a nurse at the University of Rochester when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in 1981. ... early local response to AIDS in the 1980s, died Saturday at age 71 after a long period of illness ...
Richard J. Schmidt was an American former physician who was convicted by a Louisiana court in 1998 of attempted second degree murder for injecting his mistress, Janice Trahan, with HIV. The case marked the first time in forensic history that viral RNA was used to prove a link between two people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( HIV) or ...
About 2,400 people who were patients of two health care providers — Providence and Legacy Health — are potentially affected and have been advised to take tests "out of an abundance of caution."
A patient hospitalized with broken ribs and a damaged spleen seemed to be getting better — until his condition “took a turn for the worse” in an intensive care unit, according to a lawsuit ...