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San Francisco Chronicle - Friday, August 7, 1992
Since medical experts first described the mysterious syndrome last month during an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, the CDC said it has received reports of nine new cases in addition to the five cases the health agency reported in Amsterdam.
Last week, the CDC made public details on the first five cases in the agency's "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report." At the same time, the agency asked doctors to report to the CDC any similar cases.
The new cases described yesterday bear striking similarities to the previous cases, and most differ sharply from the statistical profile of current acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients.
However, Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French researcher who played crucial roles in the discovery of the two viruses that cause AIDS, HIV-1 and HIV-2, said in an interview earlier this week that he doubts the significance of the reports, saying that the link to an AIDS-like syndrome "is the weakest point; there is no evidence of such an association."
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