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My vote for the key quote (from the bottom of the article): "Dr. Friedman-Kien said he had tested nine of the victims and found severe defects in their immunol
by samspot 13y ago
My vote for the key quote (from the bottom of the article):
"Dr. Friedman-Kien said he had tested nine of the victims and found severe defects in their immunological systems. The patients had serious malfunctions of two types of cells called T and B cell lymphocytes, which have important roles in fighting infections and cancer.
But Dr. Friedman-Kien emphasized that the researchers did not know whether the immunological defects were the underlying problem or had developed secondarily to the infections or drug use."
- encoderer 13y agoAnd I love that this was at the very bottom of the article! Inverted pyramid... clearly the author thought this to be a somewhat irrelevant aside.
- joezydeco 13y agoIt was scientists working on leukemia and white-cell cancers that made the eventual discovery of HIV-1. Initially, the virus was classified as HTLV-IIIb before getting it's own name. At the time there was also a bit of a dispute between American and French researchers over credit for the discovery and subsequent development of the diagnostic test. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14881-was-robert-gallo-robbed-of-the-nobel-prize.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14881-was-robert-gallo...