On this day 1981: "Mystery disease kills homosexuals"
 

24 years ago today the BBC ran a story about a "mystery disease" that was killing homosexuals. It was another two and a bit years before scientists found out what it was:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/4020391.stm

Interesting to see how AIDS/HIV was originally reported before anyone knew what it was.