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If AIDS Went the Way of Smallpox

Source: The New York Times

Bangkok : Thailand | 2 months ago

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After all, even if the cold and its stealth wingman, pneumonia , kill more people, they don’t do it quite so grimly...In poor countries, they too often leave behind a blighted harvest of orphans, coldly furious infected spouses and spiteful neighbors cackling with schadenfreude and lying about...

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@francineorr If AIDS Went the Way of Smallpox Interesting NYT's story. What would an AIDS vaccine mean to the world? http://tinyurl.com/ye27f9g
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