A.I.D.S. victim
PA Dunedin An Invercargill man has been suffering from the killer disease A.I.D.S. since May, 1983, says a Southland Hospital doctor. Dr K. R. Romeril, a haematologist, writes in a letter to the “New Zealand Medical Journal” that the homosexual man contracted A.I.D.S. before the first reported case in New Zealand in 1984. Dr Romeril said the man, then 18, was very ill after a
three-week holiday in San Francisco. He lost three stone in weight and had several other symptoms. He recovered slowly but in September, 1983, had a different severe infection, Dr Romeril said. Recurring mouth infections had also followed. Dr Romeril described the results of various tests and said: “This patient therefore presented in May, 1983, with a condition that was in retrospect acute A.I.D.S. introvirus infection.”
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