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A Washington committee of scientists deliberating over a non-controversial name for the AIDS virus will propose calling it “human immune deficiency virus.” The suggested new name is one that deliberately avoids any similarity with those currently being used by competing American and French scientists who are engaged in a transatlantic legal battle over who first discovered the virus. The American scientists, led by Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, have been calling the virus HTLV-III, for human T-cell lymphotropic virus.
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