Re: HIV=/=AIDS video

From: Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 1997 - 04:03:01 MST


On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 Enigl@aol.com wrote:

> In 1959 a "normal healthy" British soldier was diagnosed with HIV and died of
> AIDS. This was discovered via a 30 year old retro-(excuse the
> pun)-investigation.

I thought someone later demonstrated that the blood sample might have been
contaminated by HIV in the lab? Or am I thinking of another old case?

        Mark

P.S. Being pedantic, he wasn't diagnosed in 1959, a blood sample from 1959
was found to contain HIV.

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