"Gallo Admits French had Sent AIDS Virus"

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"Gallo Admits French had Sent AIDS Virus"

Chicago Tribune (05/30/91), P. 1-4
Crewdson, John

Abstract: Dr. Robert C. Gallo will admit, in a written letter to the British scientific journal, Nature, that the AIDS virus he claimed to discover actually was sent to him by scientists in France. In the published version of the letter, Gallo writes that a viral culture in his laboratory "became contaminated" with some French virus that was shipped from the Pasteur Institute in 1983. Since 1983, Gallo has attempted to persuade the scientific community that his lab derived HIV from an American patient. The Pasteur Institute insisted that the virus was from a sample it sent to the National Institutes of Health, and therefore, the AIDS blood test Gallo's lab developed had been made with the French virus. Currently, NIH investigators are attempting to determine whether Gallo's cultures became contaminated with the French virus by accident or on purpose. Related Stories: Philadelphia Inquirer (05/31) P. 10C; New York Times (05/31) P. A12; Washington Post (05/31) P. A3

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