David Langford reports in Ansbile 177 ::
ISAAC ASIMOV’s death in April 1992 was hastened by AIDS, according to the recent autobiographical collection _Isaac Asimov: It’s Been a Good Life_, edited by his widow Janet Jeppson. He was given an infected blood transfusion during 1983 heart bypass surgery. What rotten luck. JJ wishes to correct a misleading _Locus_ report that she (rather than the doctor) persuaded Asimov to keep silent about this illness.