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Mustich, Emma. "A History of AIDS Hysteria". 5, June, 2011. Web.6, October, 2016.

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The AIDS hysteria was very similar to the Salem Witch Trials because people would go to extremes just to keep witches away from society and would do the same to someone with AIDS. Some people that had AIDS would be assumed to have been homosexual or drug addicts, even if they really were not either. During the Salem Witch Trials people were accused of being witches even when they were not a witch.

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AIDS to this day has not come to an end and there still is not a cure for it, but when people became more educated about AIDS the hysteria calmed down quite a bit. The whole hysteria was mostly brought about when several people started getting diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma at about the same time. Some people still have very little knowledge about AIDS but the majority of people do and that is why not people do not get very worried about getting AIDS using public restrooms or hitting someone with their car.

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The consequences of the AIDS  hysteria effected many people very negatively. The gay community had taken the hardest hit for the entire thing. Many people became homophobic during this time and hated homosexual people. A pedestrian was run over by a motorist and the driver wanted to know how to decontaminate his vehicle because he had believed the man he had hit had AIDS. A British AIDS victim had been entombed in a concrete cemetery in North Yorkshire "just in case" they ever decided to open the coffin again. At a school in New York City there was 1 child out of all of the elementary students that had AIDS and when the school opened 944 of its  1,100 students stayed home.

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The biggest reason for the AIDS hysteria is people's lack of knowledge about the disease. People thought if you were gay that you automatically had AIDS. They also thought that if you had been around a gay person and exposed to them that you had AIDS. People did not know how AIDS spread and how people got it so instead of trying to figure the information out they made their own explanations and came up with their own ideas and that ended up causing a lot of issues and becoming a problem for many people, especially the gay community.

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The hysteria of AIDS spread fairly quickly. Since most people did not know much about AIDS they did not really think about how it spread and what the effects of it were. A lot of people actually thought you could get AIDS just by touching someone who had it or coming into contact with something they had come into contact with also. People really did not know how they got it but they thought that it came from homosexual men so many people shunned anyone who identified as homosexual and did not want anything to do with gay people.

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The origin of the AIDS Hysteria began in New York and San Francisco, California during the 80's. The majority of people involved were homosexual men. The beginning of this hysteria began when 41 cases of rare cancer called Kaposi's Sarcoma had been diagnosed in New York City in all gay men. When people started hearing about the spread of AIDS they knew very little about the disease and began to worry!