Word: marlink
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international scope of the crisis caused by the U.S. immigration policy is readily apparent to Marlink, whose own work as a clinical AIDS researcher has taken him to sites ranging from New York City to Senegal...
After graduating from the University of New Mexico Medical School in 1980, Marlink first saw AIDS cases at New York City's St. Vincent Hospital. At the time, scientists had not yet identified the disease as AIDS...
...experiences there led him to clinical AIDS care, and eventually to the Harvard lab of Max E. Essex, Lasker professor of health sciences at the School of Public Health and chair of the AIDS Institute. There, Marlink and Essex began researching a new strain of HIV known as HIV-II, which also causes AIDS-like symptoms...
...this research, Marlink travels to Senegal every two to three months. Clinical studies in that country, conducted by a team of Senegalese physicians and scientists, are attempting to determine the clinical and immunological differences between the viruses...
Essex says that Marlink's research has yielded some "very exciting results," among them that HIV-II is less virulent than HIV-I. Researchers have demonstrated that HIV-II causes AIDS at ten percent the rate...