Consequently, the nutritive status of the host critically determines the outcome of infection.
Dr. Gottlieb's Los Angeles report, and the KS "outbreak" in NYC and San Francisco, spurred a race among epidemiologists at the CDC and NIH - and simultaneiously at the Pasteur Institute - to find a cause celebre, a 'bug' that was making gay folk sick, even though the reasons for these illnesses caused by the mens' immunocompromised state was plainly attributable to behavioral causes.