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Margaret Heckler
- Region: North America
- Country: USA
- Keywords: History
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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