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...subtle warp in an otherwise routine day. Dr. Wilina Lim, chief virologist with the Hong Kong Department of Health, was sorting through the usual load of blood and tissue specimens sent to her laboratory from nearby hospitals, typically about 80 a day. On this particular day--Tuesday, May 20, 1997--one specimen came from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, at the far side of Victoria Harbor, where a three-year-old boy had been admitted with what turned out to be a fatal respiratory illness. Her lab quickly determined that the infectious agent was some type of Influenza...
...Queen Elizabeth Hospital sent Lim a specimen from a 54-year-old male who had developed a fever and a cough and soon had to be admitted, apparently suffering from pneumonia. Four days later, Lim's lab succeeded in growing a virus extracted from his specimens. The next day, the patient died. Lim tested the virus with her H5 reagents. Again, a positive...
...just any HIV. The Leopoldville sample is the oldest specimen of the AIDS virus ever isolated and may now help solve the mystery of how and when the virus made the leap from animals (monkeys or chimpanzees) to humans, according to a report published last week in Nature. Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and one of the study's authors, says a careful genetic analysis of the sample's DNA pushes the putative origin of the AIDS epidemic back at least a decade, to the early '50s or even...
...comparing the DNA of the 1959 virus with that of samples taken from the '80s and '90s, Ho and his colleagues constructed a viral family tree in which the Leopoldville isolate sits right at the juncture where three subtypes branch out. The 39-year-old specimen is also strikingly similar to the other seven subtypes. The clear implication: all the viral strains can be traced back to a single event or a closely related group of events. One theory is that AIDS started through contact with infected monkeys in a remote area and spread to the rest of the population...
...first appear as caricatures and foils to her emotional depth and intensity. Through the first quarter of the production, their strong New Jersey accents and exaggerated expressions work well as part of the alienating background Julie fights against. Rabbit especially plays the hyperbolic daughter masterfully, serving as a curious specimen of the suburban wasteland...