What does LAV stand for?

Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus

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Luc Montagnier in France isolates lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), later to become known as human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.

25 Years of AIDS

Gone is the bleak pessimism that accompanied diagnosis of infection with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III or lymphadenopathy-associated virus, as the virus was formerly known (4).

Weeds

Shortly afterwards, a French doctor discovered the lymphadenopathy-associated virus later known as the (the human immunodeficiency virus HIV) caused Aids.

Are we still dying of ignorance ? 25 years after the first cases of ...