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AIDS was discovered during the fight to help determine why there was an outbreak of previously rare cancers in young gay males of New York. The name AIDS was given to the virus in 1982, but the cause was not determined until two years later.You can find more information here: http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01335/en/txt/discovery.
