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Chapter 5The Emperorʹs New Virus"You discovered WHAT!?" Jackie shrieked."I found out that Robert Gallo may have created the AIDS virusabout a decade before he allegedly discovered it.""Come on.""Well, I'll know more tomorrow. I'm going back to the dungeonto search his early work.""You think there's a paper trail? But why would he havepublished something so incriminating?""Because he couldn't have possibly predicted that his creationsmight have caused an epidemic a decade later. Besides, RandyShilts characterized Gallo as having a huge ego in And The BandPlayed On,' and those types like to see their names in print."I had quickly read Shilts's highly regarded work about two yearsearlier. Though I skimmed through much of it, my most vividmemory was that Gallo erected barriers for colleagues racingagainst time in search of the deadly AIDS virus."You know the old saying 'publish or perish.' Today I discoveredthat Gallo's lab at the NCI put AIDS-like viruses together by themid-1970s. They proudly published it.""Really?""I might be wrong, but my intuition is telling me to thoroughlycheck it out; especially now that I know that the NCI, and mostlikely Gallo's lab, was the principal beneficiary of the $10 millionDOD AIDS-like virus contract?"How do you know that?""<strong>By</strong> putting the pieces together," I replied. "The NCI was theWHO's chief virus distributor and they took over Fort Detrick.And Gallo was their top retrovirologist, that is, immune-systemdestroyinggerm expert. Anyway, I'll find out more in themorning. I'm leaving for Boston again early."That night I couldn't sleep. Questions darted through my mind atlightening speed: Had WHO officials known that their viral"reagents" and laboratory instructions were being used bybiological weapons developers? How could they not have?Immune system destroying "slow" cancer viruses were the rageback then. Were WHO officials connected to NAS-NRCmembers who worked for the DOD? Was Gallo a member of theNAS-NRC, and if so, was he directly involved in theirnegotiations with the DOD? Had he participated in thecontroversial Fort Detrick symposium on "entry and control offoreign nucleic acid?" Could he have been injecting RNA intocells to create cancers and analyzing white blood cell controlmechanisms as early as the 1960s? This would have drawn DODattention to his work for potential application in BW research.It struck me odd that soon after the WHO published its report onchemical and biological warfare, the WHO Chronicle ceased
publishing its "Current Research Projects" column that hadappeared almost monthly until 1969. Had the military contractorshushed the WHO Chronicle up? Had the CIA - thecounterintelligence arm of the Defense Department - protestedthe practice of giving CBW secrets away?"I can't sleep," I said to Jackie who was dozing soundly."I'm getting up to read."Gallo Sounded Dreadful in ʺThe BandʺDriven to satisfy my wakeful curiosity Gallo, I walked to the den,flicked on the reading lamp, and thumbed to the index of 'AndThe Band Played On.' I then settled back into the recliner andbegan to read the sections Shilts had written about him.Robert Gallo, I immediately learned, was the son of a hardworkingpresident of a Connecticut metal company. His mother,Shilts simply described as charismatic, extroverted, and clannish.[3]In 1949, at the age of thirteen, young Robert suffered a "turningpoint" in his life. His younger sister struggled unsuccessfully tofight leukemia. While she was at the hospital, Gallo met thefamous Harvard University cancer expert, Sydney Faber, andother researchers who worked to save his sister from death. Thisexperience sparked Gallo's desire to become a research biologist.[3]An uncle who taught zoology at the University of Connecticutencouraged young Robert to study at a local Catholic hospitalwith a grossly cynical research pathologist. Here, as a teen, Galloperformed numerous autopsies. [3]Later, above his mother's garage, while attending ProvidenceCollege, he slew scores of mice and studied diligently. [3]He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1963 and thenwent on to a two-year postdoctoral residency program at theUniversity of Chicago. Next he became a clinical associate in theMedical Branch of the NIH's National Cancer Institute. Here,assigned to work in the children's leukemia ward at the NIHHospital, he swore he would "never work with patients again."[3]Later he was appointed to head the NCI's Cellular ControlMechanisms Section of the Human Tumor Cell Biology Branch,and then in 1972, he became the Chief of Lab Tumor CellBiology at the NCI.From 1966 to 1970 Gallo earned fame investigating the theorythat viruses played a role in leukemia and other forms of cancer.His efforts examined the role of retroviruses and focused on theunique enzyme reverse transcriptase - the chemical thatretroviruses used to reproduce themselves in victim cells.Identifying reverse transcriptase aided scientists in detectingretrovirus infections, and represented a significant advance. Yet,few scientists appeared particularly impressed by Gallo's work.
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