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   When the human immunodeficiency virus was identified in 1984, the competition to create an AIDS vaccine was fierce. Now Patricia Thomas brings the contenders to life in a fast-paced, narrative: two biologists rescue precious virus cultures from destruction by a military biohazard team. Other researchers drive hundreds of miles during a heat wave to work in a safe containment lab. And a heroic figure from Randy Shilts’s And The Band Played On just might win the vaccine marathon.

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     Yemaya :sparkles_cyan: :sparkles_blue: :sparkles_indigo: (yemaya@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 02:13:18 JST Yemaya :sparkles_cyan: :sparkles_blue: :sparkles_indigo:

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     I do like the film And The Band Played On.... it's so incredibly sad... But lots of nuggets of truth
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     @Yemaya No one won the vaccine marathon. It was always a lie, the science was never there, the medieval belief you can rub cooked up diseased animal tissue into an open wound never held much truth. The gp120 envelope protein coat is adaptive and elusive, perhaps like some other viruses we know of, with very long strands of RNA that the magic volcanologist still don't know what code for. Prior the 1980s, government risk assessments of death including death by vaccines (low but real).
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