Rampant. How a city stopped a plague
Description
In November 1982, a young man walked into St Vincent's hospital, Sydney, complaining of simple symptoms - fever, fatigue, sweats. Not much was known about the virus he was carrying. Its name was still being debated. Its cause was a mystery. Its cure had yet to be found. It has still to be found. In time, like 50 million others around the world, he died of the disease. He was the first person diagnosed with AIDS in Australia. As news of his diagnosis spread, health experts prepared the country for deaths on an extraordinary scale - parallels with the Black Death were almost irresistible. A plague, an apocalypse lay ahead. Twenty-five years on, this is the story of how wrong, and how right they were.
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57 min
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Date of Publication
2007
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Alexander Street
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