What did Jenny die from?

I was always sure it was AIDS.
Part of me was super uneasy with the idea that Forrest slept with her afterwards.
I am serious.
Seemed like something that should have gotten an explanation as it could have been cancer, but with her background, HIV/AIDS made sense.

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I thought it was cancer. Plain and simple

Food poisoning.













She ate a bad wiener.




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It's not specified in the film, but in the sequel book "Gump & Co" the author mentions that Jenny dies from Hepatitis C as a former drug addict in the early 70s. Hepatitis C was an unknown disease until 1989. She says in the movie that the doctors do not know what the virus is and that they can do nothing about it.

Hep C

In the sequel, the author clarified that it was Hep C. It was relatively unknown at the time, and wouldn't have been passed down to her son.

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According to, the book I believe, Jenny died from Hepatitis C. Something drug users in the '70s contracted, but they couldn't identify at the time.

Hepatitis C, *NOT* AIDS.