Billion Dollar Blood

In the early 1980s, a young Sydney man gave blood. He didn't know that he was infected with the AIDS virus, and that the deadly microbe in his blood would be passed on to at least eight other patients through transfusions. But instead of coming down with the disease, the recipients of the contaminated blood went on the make medical history. This is the story behind the Australian research that made world-wide headlines - a scientific detective story about someone outside the scientific community who made a crucial discovery, and persisted in having it investigated. The result could be the first effective AIDS vaccine.

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