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title: Asimov had AIDS
date: "2002-03-11T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1405
description: I highlight the revelation that Isaac Asimov contracted HIV via a blood transfusion during a 1983 heart bypass surgery, leading to his death from AIDS-related complications—a fact his family kept secret for a decade after he passed.
keywords: [isaac asimov, hiv, aids, blood transfusion, bypass surgery, medical history]
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[Asimov had AIDS](http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi/2002/Mar/7#asimov). But because of a by-pass surgery.