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Margaret Heckler
- Region: North America
- Country: USA
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On April 23rd 1984 Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced that Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute had isolated the virus which caused AIDS, that it was named HTLV-III, and that there would soon be a commercially available test for the virus.
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