Grethe Rask, Gaëtan Dugas, the five men in Gottlieb’s report from Los Angeles, the Kaposi’s sarcoma patients known to Friedman-Kien, the Haitians in Miami, the cluster of thirty-nine (besides Dugas) identified in David Auerbach’s study—were among the earliest recognized cases of what has retrospectively been identified as AIDS. But they weren’t among the first victims.
