Isolated in 1983, the virus that causes AIDS is known today by this acronym
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History of HIV and AIDS overview | AVERT  In January 1983, AIDS was reported among the female partners of males who had ... of Viruses said that the virus that causes AIDS will officially be called HIV...
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Who discovered HIV: Gallo, Montagnier or both? | Dallas Voice  Jul 6, 2006 ... On January 23, 1983, Montagnier found a suspect virus he called LAV ... announced that Gallo had isolated the virus which caused AIDS, that it...
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Luc Montagnier - Wikipedia  Luc Antoine Montagnier (born 18 August 1932) is a French virologist and joint recipient with ... Gallo called the virus "human T-lymphotropic virus type III" (HTLV-III) ... first to isolate HIV was for many years the subject of an acrimonious dispute. ... as that discovered by Montagnier (but not known by Montagnier to cause AIDS).
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Naming the Enemy: AIDS Research, Contagion and the Discovery of ...  Susan Sontag, as is well known, has written a book called AIDS and its ... of AIDS lies a pure, intelligible object called HIV, 'the virus that causes of AIDS' [3], ready to ... Because of this yearning for an objective site of disease that can be isolated .... in 1983 or 1984, this research resulted in the discovery of a virus (now called...
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J! Archive - Show #3912, aired 2001-09-11  Isolated in 1983, the virus that causes AIDS is known today by this acronym ... inside of your cheeks is a sign you've "spotted" this viral infection...
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HIV, viral facts  Human Immunodeficiency Virus and HIV Disease, October 2001 ... Her group's analysis required the use of parallel supercomputers to backtrack the evolution to its source from ... The distinguishing feature of all retroviruses is that they replicate backward; ... using the enzyme reverse transcriptase in the first two steps.
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco ... By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the .... That was in 1987. How many people had died from the disease before I even knew what it was?
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Emory University Public Health - A Pioneer for AIDS - WHSC  James Curran, dean of the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), ... outbreaks, including toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease, and swine flu. ... that ultimately was found to be caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in 1983. ... HIV, the CDC and the U.S. Public Health Service recommended that persons at...
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First Report of AIDS - CDC  Jun 5, 1981 ... MMWR has published more than 400 reports about human ... CDC analyzed reported AIDS cases from 1981 through 2000 from the 50 states, .... Disease-monitoring systems were established following the first reports in 1981...
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Red ribbon: Celebrating 20 years of the iconic AIDS symbol - CNN ...  Dec 1, 2011 ... Red ribbon: Celebrating 20 years of the iconic AIDS symbol ... Red Ribbon Project" by New York based group, Visual AIDS in 1991. ... That's how long it has been since the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus created what they called...
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When Two Is Better Than One: Thoughts on Three Decades of ...  Interestingly, the discipline of virology is also 100 years old; for it was also in the last ... the term virus (Latin, poison) to denote infectious agents not retained by filters ... that tumors can be caused by infectious agents smaller than bacteria (10); ... a superb job guiding the journal through ever more rapidly changing times.
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Selman Waksman and Antibiotics - Landmark - American Chemical ...  During the 1940s, Waksman and his students isolated more than fifteen .... Selman Waksman's enduring fame rests on the discovery of streptomycin, "the ... what has become the common termantibioticsfor these therapeutic agents.15.
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The NAMES Project Foundation  The Names Project  Through programs and activities of The AIDS Memorial Quilt, The NAMES ... October 1987, the first 1,920 panels were displayed on the National Mall in ... The Quilt quickly became a vehicle to visually illustrate the numbers lost to the AIDS epidemic ... First dubbed the Gay Plague and the disease of drug addicts, HIV/AIDS...
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The Discovery of HIV: A Tale of Two Scientists - Scizzle BlogScizzle ...  Jun 6, 2014 ... Who really discovered the cause of AIDS? ... In the early 1980s, scientists were struggling to find the cause of a new, rapidly spreading ... But the work of two labs, that of Robert Gallo at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, ... patient with T cell leukemia, which they named human T cell leukemia virus, or HTLV.
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Zidovudine - Wikipedia  Zidovudine (ZDV), also known as azidothymidine (AZT), is an antiretroviral medication used to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. It reduces the replication of the virus and leads to improvements in both ... Zidovudine was approved in the United States in 1986 and was the first treatment to be approved for HIV. It is on the World...
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Approval of AZT | News | AIDSinfo  Mar 20, 1987 ... Retrovir is the first approved treatment of AIDS. Because of limited supply of the drug, distribution will be restricted initially by the company to...
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Yellow Fever  Yellow fever, also known as Black Vomit, is a noncontagious, infectious viral ... Finlays theory was verified in 1901 by Major Walter Reed M.D. and ... They were able to prove that the virus was transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito while at ... for medicine in 1951 for his work and accomplishments with the vaccine (6).
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Speech at the Opening of the 13th International AIDS Conference ...  Speech at the Opening of the 13th International AIDS Conference. Durban, 9 July 2000 ... of South Africa, I am happy to welcome you to Durban and to our country. ... are in Africa for the first time in the history of the International AIDS Conferences. ... to engage in struggle against the AIDS epidemic confronting our Continent.
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Thinking big: scaling-up HIV-1 interventions in sub-Saharan Africa ...  Published: 30 October 1999 ... where they accounted for 18 million deaths in 1998, almost double the number of deaths from malaria and eight times that from...
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A Timeline of HIV/AIDS - AIDS.gov  The history of the domestic AIDS epidemic began in illness, fear, and deathbut we ... of the 30th anniversary of the first reports of what became known as AIDS. .... for Disease Control and Prevention state that avoiding injection drug use and ... March 19: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the first...
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In Philadelphia 30 Years Ago, an Eruption of Illness and Fear - The ...  Aug 1, 2006 ... No one knew the health status of the 10,000 other convention participants. ... had discovered an often fatal new disease, pantosomatitis, that was spreading throughout ... Disease outbreaks were familiar territory for me. .... The cluster was not reported until after news of the Legionnaires' outbreak in 1976.