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AIDS Didn't Spread In Study, Expert Says

Associated Press - October 23, 1985


A French study has found no evidence that AIDS can be spread by casual contact, one of the world's leading researchers says.

Dr. Luc Montagnier, speaking Monday in San Francisco, said the French studied 60 handicapped boys, half of whom were hemophiliac. Half the hemophilacs had been infected with the virus associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

He said the boys lived together in "very close, casual and continual contact," but researchers found no indication the other boys had been infected.


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