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The HIV virus first arrives in the U.S.

1968

AIDS
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A 2003 analysis of HIV types found in the United States compared to known mutation rates will suggest that the virus may have first arrived in the United States in 1968. The disease will begin to spread, but will remain unrecognized for another 12 years.