Billy Porter Johnson & Johnson presents screening of AIDS doc ‘5B,’ fireside chat with Billy Porter TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com It was June 5, 1981 when the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control published an article in its “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” describing cases of a rare lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in found five young, white, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles immunologist Dr. Michael Gottlieb and Dr. Wayne Shandera with the CDC, along with their colleagues, reported that all five also had other unusual infections, an indication that their immune systems were not functioning properly.