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Margrethe P. Rask (1930 – 12 December 1977), 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.
- 1964–1977
- AIDS-related complications
- 1930, Thisted, Denmark
Grethe Rask was a Danish doctor who worked at a mission hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1970s, where she contracted and died of the Ebola virus. She saved many lives from other diseases, such as malaria and warthogs, and ate game meat with the locals.
1. Juli 1988 · By 1976, Grethe Rask, a Danish doctor who had come to work in Zaire in 1964, had been inexplicably weary for two years. She was losing weight, and her lymph glands were swollen. For the...
9. Feb. 2023 · Grethe Rask died in December 1977 from a disease which was later identified as AIDS. She was one of the first non-African patients (like Arvid Noe) to succumb to the consequences of AIDS. It seems that Dr. Rask showed symptoms of HIV at the end of 1974, e.g., fever, diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, and fatigue. The effects ...
14. Juni 2021 · Grethe Rask was a Danish physician and surgeon who died of AIDS in 1981. She was the first person to be diagnosed with HIV in the United States and the first to report it to the CDC. She also co-founded the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a community-based organization that raised awareness and funds for the AIDS epidemic.
Grethe Rask was a Danish surgeon who traveled to Zaïre in 1964 then again in 1972 to aid the sick. She was likely directly exposed to blood from many Congolese patients, one of whom infected her. She became unwell in 1974, then returned to Denmark in 1977, with her colleagues baffled by her symptoms.
15. Juni 2011 · The US alone had more than 65 000 cases by 1988. Were this to happen today the panic would be unimaginable. The late Randy Shilts’s 1987 classic, And the Band Played On , encyclopaedically chronicles the events from the death of the Danish doctor Grethe Rask in …
