The first case of AIDS in the United States has been established in St. Louis in 1968. The recognition of an epidemic of AIDS first appeared in the June and July, 1981 issues of  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, with reports of male homosexuals in Los Angeles and New York City reporting to hospitals with Kaposi's Sarcoma  and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, diseases  young individuals do not normally report with.