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旧文章 新增文章 第五篇：U.S. Eats Too 卫生 C 阅读理解 第五篇：Tracking Down HIV Much Salt 第二篇：The Hope Children’s 补全短文 第二篇 Bedwetting Hospice 第七篇 Reinventing the第七篇：Powering Napping is 卫生 B 补全短文 Table Good for the I.Q 第十二篇：First 第十二篇：Inquest told of 卫生 A 阅读判断 Self-contained Heart hospital error Implanted 第十二篇 More Efforts 补全短文 Urged to Empower Women第十二篇：The enemy Within at AIDS Conference 第五篇 Tracking Down HIV In the summer of 1980, a patient had a strange purplish spot removed from below his ear. It was Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer. This patient also had lymph node swelling and exhaustion. In November 1980, a Los Angeles immunologist examined a young man who had diseases linked to immune system malfunctions. The doctor had a T-cell count taken of the patient’s blood. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that plays a key role1 in immune responses. The patient had no helper T-cells. By the end of 1980, 55 Americans were diagnosed with infections related to immune system breakdown; four had died. A year later the death toll was 74. Intravenous drug users had T-cell abnormalities. People who had received blood transfusions showed symptoms of immune system breakdown. By July 1982, 471 cases of the disease, now called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), had been reported; 184 people had died. In April 1984, American virologist Dr. Robert Gallo isolated the pathogen, or disease producer, responsibl