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Southwest Missouri and the epidemic that no one saw coming

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Most people don’t know that a Missouri boy died of what is now believed to have been AIDS more than a decade before the virus was officially identified. In late 1968, Robert Rayford, a shy 15-year-old Black boy from St. Louis, arrived at the city hospital with swollen legs and genitals, severe [...]
Kathryn Skopec