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Sunday, June 3, 2001


Video: Understanding the Disease
This video shows how H.I.V. interacts with the immune system.
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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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