Ted Cruz Staffer: "Before Obamacare, there had never been a confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S."

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50. There were no confirmed cases of HIV/AIDS until President Ronald Reagan

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Discovery

AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States.[25] The initial cases were a cluster of injecting drug users and homosexual men with no known cause of impaired immunity who showed symptoms of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare opportunistic infection that was known to occur in people with very compromised immune systems.[186] Soon thereafter, an unexpected number of gay men developed a previously rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).[187][188] Many more cases of PCP and KS emerged, alerting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a CDC task force was formed to monitor the outbreak.

In the early days, the CDC did not have an official name for the disease, often referring to it by way of the diseases that were associated with it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers of HIV originally named the virus.[190][191] They also used Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, the name by which a task force had been set up in 1981.[192] At one point, the CDC coined the phrase "the 4H disease", since the syndrome seemed to affect Haitians, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin users.[193] In the general press, the term "GRID", which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.[194] However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community,[192] it was realized that the term GRID was misleading and the term AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.[195] By September 1982 the CDC started referring to the disease as AIDS.[196]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Discovery

Keep talking, Nick... the Democrats will thank you for it.