AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1983, Luc Montagnier’s team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris discovered HIV‑1. Using the established techniques, they cultured T cells from a lymph node biopsy from a 33-year-old homosexual French patient with symptoms that can precede AIDS (subsequently called pre-AIDS), such as lymphadenopathy.

Detailed explanation-2: -AIDS was first identified in the United States in 1981 . In 1984, 3 years after scientists identified AIDS, they discovered its cause: HIV. Researchers estimate that about 100, 000 to 300, 000 people worldwide lived with HIV pre-1980.

Detailed explanation-3: -First case diagnosed in 1983. In 2010 32% of the infected were infected through heterosexual contact. Austria has the highest conduct of HIV testing in Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier identified the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 1983, while working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They originally called it lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAV).