Sunday,
June 3, 2001
Video:
Understanding the Disease
This video shows how H.I.V. interacts with the immune system.
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Copyright
1995 by Glaxo Wellcome
AIDS
AT 20 : Discovering a global killer
Sabin Russell
It was April 1981, and Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an assistant professor
of immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine, was hot on the
trail of a medical mystery. In just four months, he and his
colleagues had found five cases of rare Pneumocystis carinii
pneumonia in gay men. Twenty years later, Gottlieb reckons that
he underestimated what he had found - by about 36 million cases.
Gottlieb had discovered AIDS. "It is astonishing," he said.
"A disease that moved from a chimp to a human in Central Africa
first came onto our radar screen here, in West Los Angeles."
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