Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went for an hour, until all the samples had been covered. In the end, Gallo won: signs of his virus were present in blood from AIDS patients and not in the others; he had correctly identified nearly all of them...
...respected journal Science will soon publish four papers that describe Gallo's isolation of a virus that appears to be the cause of AIDS. "He is going to nail it down cold," predicts AIDS Researcher Anthony Fauci of NIH. But as word of the discovery began to leak out last week-notably in an article in New Scientist magazine based apparently on advance copies of Gallo's papers-a scientific team in Paris rushed to call attention to their own work on an AIDS virus. A Nobel Prize was possibly at stake, and Epidemiologist William Blattner...
...French team is headed by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the renowned Pasteur Institute. In interviews with the U.S. press, Montagnier described a virus he and his colleagues had found in the blood of patients with the swollen lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms that characterize the early stage of AIDS. Like Gallo, the Pasteur researchers reportedly found signs of the virus in 80% to 90% of blood samples from AIDS patients. Both research groups affirm that the bugs they have found closely resemble the cancer-causing virus discovered by Gallo four years ago. The two groups suspect they have found...
While scientists may bicker over who was first to discover the virus, the important news is that a breakthrough has finally been made in understanding the deadly AIDS epidemic. What matters, says Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University, "is that we now know the face of the enemy...
...proclaims NCI Director Vincent Devita. Plans for an AIDS vaccine are already being made at Gallo's lab. But the most immediate application of the discovery is a blood-screening test that could be used to protect the nation's blood supply from contamination by the AIDS virus. So far 83 Americans, including 30 hemophiliacs, have contracted AIDS after receiving transfusions or blood products. According to Gallo, an accurate and inexpensive blood-screening test could be available within weeks...