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...Robert Gallo, of the National Institute of Humanities and the National Cancer Institute, was one scientist determined to be a household name. He had a killer on his hands, AIDS, a major federally financed laboratory for research and the unceasing desire for the glory of solving the mystery of the world’s newest and potentially deadliest threat...
...Gallo also had an ego that would drive him beyond the realm of the unethical to make him the indirect killer of thousands of people transfused with HIV-tainted blood between 1982 and 1986. In Science Fictions, John Crewdson vilifies Gallo for misleading the world and provides a nearly day-by-day record of the history of HIV and AIDS from the time of their discovery to the present...
...stakes were high in 1982, as Crewdson explains. When Gallo made his first appearance, AIDS had just started to hit the western world. At this point, scientists knew how to recognize the disease’s symptoms—they just had no clue what caused patients’ T-cells to wither and their bodies to become susceptible for opportunistic diseases. Homosexuals were the first to experience the leukemia-like symptoms: large lymph nodes, fatigue and weight loss. Then hemophiliacs, unbeknownst to health practitioners at the time, were also succumbing to the virus, infected by the blood transfusions intended...
...credit, Gallo made a risky move in deciding to focus on AIDS. Ronald Reagan had declared war on cancer and AIDS had the stigma as a “gay disease.” But in 1983, the French at the Pasteur laboratories were ahead and looked likely to seize the glory, making Gallo’s decision to devote himself to the disease original and ambitious...
...Museums: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée des Tissus textile museum, Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romain, Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation...