Earliest AIDS Case Is Called Into Doubt - The New York Times
Apr 4, 1995 · WHAT was believed to be the earliest known case of AIDS, dating to 1959, may not have been AIDS after all, new scientific evidence shows. The case of David Carr, a 25-year-old man who died...
History of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia
David Carr was an apprentice printer (usually mistakenly referred to as a sailor; Carr had served in the Navy between 1955 and 1957) from Manchester, England who died on August 31, 1959, and was for some time mistakenly reported to have died from AIDS-defining opportunistic infections (ADOIs). Following the failure of his immune system, he ...
Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases - Wikipedia
David Carr, a Manchester printer (sometimes mistakenly referred to as a sailor) who died on 31 August 1959 following the failure of his immune system; he succumbed to pneumonia. Baffled by what he had died from, doctors preserved 50 of his tissue samples for inspection.
How scientists discovered false evidence on the world's "first Aids
Mar 24, 1995 · The tissues of David Carr appear after all to have been HIV negative and his fatal illness the result of another, unexplained cause. Mr Carr's condition remains as much a mystery today as...
Quest for the Origin of AIDS/Controversial book spurs search for …
The sailor was a British printer named David Carr, who had served in the Royal Navy in the 1950s. In 1958 he was stricken with a mysterious illness and died a year later, suffering from a number of characteristic AIDS symptoms.
9.2: What About the Sailor with AIDS in 1959? - stason.org
The patient was David Carr, a 25 year old man. Most reports describe him as a sailor, but in fact his only known trip abroad was during his national service, when he visted Gibralter
World's first Aids case was false - The Independent
Mar 24, 1995 · The case of David Carr, 25, an apprentice printer who did his National Service in the Royal Navy in the mid-Fifties before developing a mysterious illness in 1958, received world-wide publicity...
Quest For The Origin Of Aids - SFGATE
Jan 14, 2001 · The new tests found that British seaman David Carr had not died of AIDS, after all. Instead, his tissue samples had apparently been contaminated during earlier laboratory testing with HIV...
HIV doubt - New Scientist
Apr 1, 1995 · A SECOND British laboratory has offered to conduct independent tests on 36-year-old human tissues in an attempt to resolve a conflict over the authenticity of the first supposed case of AIDS. The...
Origins of HIV?AIDS - Aids: Where are we now? - ABC Science …
Oct 4, 2001 · A sailor from Manchester called David Carr was thought to have been the first person to die from AIDS. He succumbed to an exotic AIDS-like illness in Britain in 1959 after spending time in West Africa and a posthumous analysis of his tissue revealed traces of HIV.