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The Chimp and The River Reading (1)
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The Chimp and The River Readingpneumonia caused by a usually harmless fungus then known as Pneumocystis carini. immune
system wasn't working, so fungus filled their lungs.
oral candidiasis more often seen in babies, diabetics, and people with compromised immune
systems - ANS-What rare pneumonia did Gottlieb observe in 1981 in LA and what other fungal
pathogen were the patients suffering from?
dramatic depletions of t-cells in blood tests - ANS-what was observed to be abnormal in the
immune system of these patients?
Kaposis's sarcoma - ANS-what rare sort of cancer showed up in young homosexual men in NY?
rather than old men, it was young homosexual men and Haitian immigrants - ANS-what was
different about the demographic of the Miami patients?
he was at the center of the network connecting the graphic figure made of all dead patients thus
far in 1984
flight attendant who flew all over the US having sex with lots of people - ANS-How did Dugas,
though not truly "Patient Zero" play a role in the North American epidemic?
HIV-1 had already arrived in North American when Dugas was a virginal adolescent - ANS-How
did we know he was not the first case in the US?
it was infectious, blood borne and escaped infection detection
small = viral - ANS-What factors suggested to Montagnier that a virus might be the cause of
AIDS?
HTLV = human tcell lympotrophic virus causes leukemia - ANS-What was the first retrovirus
discovered in Gallo's lab?
Montagnier - ANS-Montagnier, Gallo and Levy all appear to have isolated HIV strains, but who
eventually was credited as the discoverer and awarded the Nobel prize?
SIV = simian immunodeficiency virus - ANS-What related virus was discovered by Kanki in
1985?
African green monkey - ANS-In which African primate with Kanki and Essex find high levels of
this virus?
it was an intermediate between ancestral SIV and HIV, but closer to SIV - ANS-What was
strange about the viral strain from Sengalese prostitutes and what did it suggest?
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