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From: jgpo@iwu1c.UUCP (John, KA9MNK)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.motss
Subject: AIDS Breakthrough
Message-ID: <232@iwu1c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 23:30:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 23:30:57 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Apr-84 19:15:45 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Researchers at the National Cancer Institute announced today that they have
identified what they believe to be the virus that causes AIDS.  A spokesman
for the Institute said their results parallel those of a laboratory in France,
and the two labs may get together to see if they have identified the same
virus.

Given this discovery, it is anticipated that there will be a blood test for
AIDS available within six months (to be given initially to blood donors) and
possibly an AIDS vaccine within two years.

Good work, folks!



	John Opalko
	AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, IL


P.S.

I may have the details wrong, because I just pulled the story off the 10:00
news, but the one important fact is correct: AIDS may just have been conquered.