AIDS: THE LOST VOICES

In April 1959, 25-year-old David Carr from Manchester fell ill at the Manchester Royal Infirmary with a baffling illness culminating in his death by September. His doctors shared his case in a 1960 Lancet article noting he had a severely compromised immune system. By the late 1980s, tests on stored samples showed Carr had HIV, marking him as the world’s first identified AIDS patient.