When was HIV identified?

When was HIV identified?

  • (A) 1987
  • (B) 1985
  • (C) 1983
  • (D) 1980
In 1983, researchers identified HIV as the cause of AIDS. A team at the Institut Pasteur in France, under the leadership of Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, isolated a new retrovirus from a patient whose lymph nodes were enlarged. They initially named it LAV, which stands for Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus. This discovery would later earn the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008.
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