set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, Sep 19, 1991", 0, 0, "The Times, April 16, 1987", "The Times, June 9, 1990"]]
set gName = getat(["Gallo"],1)
@[]#PUTTING A PATENT ON DISCOVERY###ORIGINS OF THE AIDS VIRUS 'GO BACK 100 YEARS'#PROFESSOR DOUBTS HIV AS AIDS SOLE CAUSE
Both Montagnier and Gallo are virologists. Montagnier did his HIV research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Gallo at the US National Cancer Institute near Washington#HIV is not actually a virus but a "retrovirus": it contains RNA, not DNA. Gallo had worked with such viruses in leukaemia research, but Montagnier had little experience with them#Among Gallo's key findings was that HIV could be transmitted sexually and from mother to baby#The worldwide AIDS scare subjected victims to social stigma, made it hard for them to get jobs or insurance, and led to litigation over transfusions of infected blood#Although Wellcome's AZT became the best known treatment for HIV, its toxicity and cost, plus fears that it can cause full-blown AIDS in some sufferers, affected confidence in it in the early Nineties
