“The month of February 1983 reminds me of a lot of excitement, of pressure to try to go as quickly as possible to clearly demonstrate the link between the virus that we had just isolated and the AIDS disease itself”, recalls the Pr Francoise Barré-Sinoussi. “We had to hurry and have as many results as possible to demonstrate the scientific evidence of the role of this virus in AIDS”, explains the scientist.
The Institut Pasteur at the heart of discovery
Since the disease emerged in the early 1980s, the Institut Pasteur team has been working to discover this new retrovirus. The first step was to look for the production of the virus in cultures that came from a first patient….
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