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Word: bretonneau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1986-1986
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...killing action" of its lethal cousin. None of more than 50 people infected with the virus have developed any symptoms of AIDS. Thirty have been followed for more than a year and have remained healthy, but, says one of Essex's collaborators, Francis Barin of the virology laboratory of Bretonneau Hospital in Tours, "we must wait for more time to pass to be certain." Barin and Essex are hopeful that the new virus could serve as a natural vaccine, protecting those it infects against the more harmful AIDS virus, much as people infected with cowpox virus are protected against smallpox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closer to an Aids Vaccine? | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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