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Grethe Rask
Danish surgeon, one of the earliest non-Africans to die of AIDS · Denmark · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1930 to 1977 · aged 47
Margrethe P. Rask, better known as Grethe Rask, was a Danish physician and surgeon in Zaïre, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After setting up her own hospital in the village of Abumombazi in 1972, she transferred to Danish Red Cross Hospital in Kinshasa in 1975.
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She returned to Denmark in 1977 after developing symptoms of an unknown infectious disease, which was later discovered to be AIDS. In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control recognized AIDS. Rask was one of the first non-Africans, along with Arvid Noe and Robert Rayford, and one of the first women known to have died of AIDS-related causes.
