Q:Facts: - profession: surgeon - death place: copenhagen , denmark - years active: 1964 -- 1977 - known for: being hiv/aids one of the first non-africans to die of - death date: 12 december 1977 - birth date: 1930 - name: margrethe -lrb- grethe -rrb- p. rask - image: grethe rask.jpg - birth place: thisted , denmark Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of grethe rask .
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margrethe p. rask -lrb- 1930 -- december 12 , 1977 -rrb- , better known as grethe rask , was a danish physician and surgeon in zaire -lrb- now the democratic republic of the congo -rrb- .after setting up her own hospital in a village called abumombazi in 1972 , she transferred to danish red cross hospital in kinshasa in 1975 .she returned to denmark in 1977 after developing symptoms of an unknown disease , which was later discovered to be aids .three and a half years later in june 1981 the centers for disease control recognized aids .rask was one of the first non-africans -lrb- along with arvid noe -rrb- known to have died of aids-related causes .