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Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You

This Podcast Will Kill You

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AIDS Research - I Hate These People

In 1985, the US president Reagan and the French president Jacques Sharac had to settle this person. The result Gallo and the French researchers would share co-discover credit and the virus would be called HIV - how it got its name. This ugly chapter in AIDS research would cost Gallo the Nobel Prize in 2008,. which was granted not to him, but to the French discoverers of the viral cause of AIDS.

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