Grateful Bulgaria Welcomes HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier
Politics | September 26, 2007, Wednesday
Luc Montagnier, the co-discoverer of HIV as the cause of AIDS, has been a staunch supporter of the five Bulgarian nurses all the way through until their release in July this year. hoto by nature.com
Luc Montagnier, one of the doctors who helped first isolate the HIV virus, arrives in Sofia on Wednesday to be awarded for his contribution to the release of the seven Bulgarian medics from Libya's jails.
Montagnier, who played a key role in proving the innocence of the medics, accused of deliberately infecting with HIV more than 400 Libyan children, will be conferred a Golden Laurel Badge at the Foreign Ministry.
During the medics' trial, Luc Montagnier from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, testified that the hospital epidemic began before the accused started working at the hospital.
The comprehensive scientific reports by Montagnier and Vittorio Colizzi, an AIDS researcher at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy, proved beyond doubt that unhygienic medical practices fuelled the outbreak.
On the basis of case records and genomic analyses done in Europe, they proved that some of the children had been infected even before the workers' arrival at the hospital. The HIV infections, the experts concluded, were caused by poor sanitary practices.
The scientific evidence was ultimately thrown out, but drummed worldwide support for the release of the medics.
Montagnier, who played a key role in proving the innocence of the medics, accused of deliberately infecting with HIV more than 400 Libyan children, will be conferred a Golden Laurel Badge at the Foreign Ministry.
During the medics' trial, Luc Montagnier from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, testified that the hospital epidemic began before the accused started working at the hospital.
The comprehensive scientific reports by Montagnier and Vittorio Colizzi, an AIDS researcher at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy, proved beyond doubt that unhygienic medical practices fuelled the outbreak.
On the basis of case records and genomic analyses done in Europe, they proved that some of the children had been infected even before the workers' arrival at the hospital. The HIV infections, the experts concluded, were caused by poor sanitary practices.
The scientific evidence was ultimately thrown out, but drummed worldwide support for the release of the medics.
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