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On This Day: May 20, 1983 - The First AIDS Publication Appeared in the Journal Science

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On This Day: May 20, 1983 - The First AIDS Publication Appeared in the Journal Science.

On this day May 20, 1983, the first scientific paper identifying the virus linked to AIDS was published in the journal Science. This groundbreaking report, led by French researcher Luc Montagnier and his team at the Pasteur Institute, marked a major step in understanding the virus that would later be named HIV.

The article detailed the discovery of a novel retrovirus found in a patient with symptoms of the then mysterious immune deficiency. At the time, AIDS had already begun to spread...
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