The Race to Discover the AIDS Virus: Luc Montagnier Vs Robert Gallo

by Stuart A. Kallen

Book Overview

In the early 1980s, doctors sounded the alarm. A mysterious new disease--acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS--was spreading around the world. While many of the first AIDS patients were gay men, no one seemed to be immune from the deadly blood-borne disease. Researchers set to work to discover what was causing AIDS. They suspected a virus. Two teams of scientists--one in the United States and one in France--worked tirelessly to identify the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761354905
• ISBN13: 9780761354901
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary