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I found out how they count it. From the NYTimes today:

On June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, brief note was taken of a peculiar cluster of pneumonia cases in five otherwise healthy gay men.

The item was the first official mention of a scourge that had no name, no known means of transmission, no treatment and no cure.