By August, the Associated Press reported that two rare diseases, the skin cancer Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis, a form of pneumonia caused by a parasitic organism, had infected over 100 gay men in America, killing over half of them. By July, 40 cases of a rare skin cancer were reported by doctors working in the gay communities of New York and San Francisco. In June of that year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's newsletter mentioned five cases of a strange pneumonia in Los Angeles. In 1981, an unknown epidemic was spreading across America. Different visuals paint different pictures of the AIDS epidemic in America.
