Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx belong to a generation of physicians whose professional lives are bookended by two lethal viruses. This is what the infectious disease leaders who came of age in the 1980s know now.
Nearly 40 years ago, a young immunologist opened the latest issue of the scientific publication on his desk. What he read that day would change Anthony Fauci’s life.
The patients identified in the June 1981 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report were five gay men in Los Angeles. Those five people in one city would become tens of millions of people around the world. And the most influential doctor in the U.S. today would devote his career to HIV and AIDS—training for another virus that would turn out to be the...
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