World AIDS Day: Smithsonian Channel investigates true origins of a global epidemic- ‘Rise of the Killer Virus’ (Dec 1)
NEW YORK – In the early 1980s a mysterious virus appeared to emerge on the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Its earliest victims were young gay men. What followed were years of fear, confusion and ignorance that only compounded the threat of HIV, which even today remains the biggest viral killer worldwide. Now,…