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April 2002 Cover
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A herpes virus thought to cause Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the disfiguring skin disease that became the signature of AIDS in the 1980s, was present in a quarter of all gay men in San Francisco in 1978, predating the arrival
of the AIDS virus, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
The research upset the notion that the surge of KS cases in the 1980s was the result of a parallel epidemic of a new disease. Rather, the results of screening tests conducted on blood samples stored since 1978
indicate that the outbreak of KS was probably caused when HIV eroded the immune system of men already harboring the KS virus.
Editor's Note: from the San Francisco Chronicle
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