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Robin Marantz

Science

AIDS: A New Disease’s Deadly Odyssey

A dispatch from the early days of AIDS:

It is as relentless as leukemia, as contagious as hepatitis, and its cause has eluded researchers for more than two years.

Robin Marantz New York Times Magazine Feb 1983 25min Permalink