CDC ties sixth AIDS case to Florida dentist
Scientists using genetic tests linked a sixth person to infection by Dr. David Acer, a Florida dentist who died of AIDS in 1990. The teenage girl patient lacks a clear exposure such as a tooth extraction, leaving how she contracted the virus unresolved. officials say new information from observers could illuminate the case. Kimberly Bergalis, a college student and one of Acer’s five other patients who died in 1991, is among known victims.
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Lost Malaysian tree key to AIDS breakthrough
In 1991 researchers isolated calanolide A from twigs of a Malaysian sap tree and found it blocked HIV-1 in human immune cells in lab tests. The tree, Calophyllum lanigerum, vanished from a Sarawak swamp, and no later samples matched the compound, delaying progress toward a cure.
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