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LOS ANGELES - June 23, 2024 - PRLog -- Robert Lee Rayford (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri) who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS) in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in which the authors claimed that medical evidence indicated that he was "infected with a virus closely related or identical to human immunodeficiency virus type 1." Rayford died of pneumonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia), but his other symptoms baffled the doctors who treated him. A study published in 1988 reported the detection of antibodies against HIV. Results of testing for HIV genetic material were reported once at a scientific conference in Australia in 1999; however, the data has never been published in a peer-reviewed medical or scientific journal. The last known tissue samples of Rayford were in a New Orleans lab and inadvertently destroyed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, preventing further testing.

Robert Rayford was born on February 3, 1953, in St. Louis, Missouri. As a single parent, his mother Constance had to raise both Robert and his sibling by herself. The Rayfords lived in the Old North neighborhood of St. Louis, where the 19th-century brick homes provided affordable housing for several working class African-American families such as their own. Not much of Rayford's personal life was disclosed.