The State - News from Dec. 3, 1986

More deaths from AIDS were recorded in November than in any other month since San Francisco began tracking local cases five years ago, officials said. Seventy-six people died from the disease in November, and 108 new cases were reported, the city Department of Public Health said. “It’s not surprising that there are more deaths since there are more AIDS cases,” said Dr. George Rutherford of the department’s AIDS office. The department began its reports on the deadly disease in July, 1981. Since then, 1,517 people have died and 2,654 cases have been reported in the city. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an illness in which a virus attacks the body’s immune system, leaving victims vulnerable to a wide variety of infections and cancers.