PYC 2605 ASSIGNMENT 1

PREVIEW OF QUESTION 1 The world first became aware of a new disease in June 1981 when the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta in the USA pronounced the occurrence of not only an exceedingly rare form of pneumonia (Pneumocystis pneumonia or PCP, then called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia) but also of a very uncommon type of cancer (Kaposi’s sarcoma) in five young homosexual men in Los Angeles. Scientists were baffled by this new disease because the causes and the m...