“The disease leads to death, and it does so within a short period of two to three years...The disease must, from our present experience, be considered from the onset not only as incurable but also as deadly.”—Moritz Kaposi, 1872
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Boshoff, C. Kohn to Kaposi. Nat Med 9, 262 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0303-262
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