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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon May 20, 2024, 06:53 AM May 2024

On this day, May 20, 1983, the first articles about the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS were published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_20

• 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
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