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20-12-2006
Death sentence in Libya based on fatal mistranslation
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Tripoli, Libya (New Scientist): Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor receive the death sentence for transmitting HIV, in a trial scientists have called "deeply flawed". […] A report to the court [by Luc Montagnier, a professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris] was put to one side and a second team of doctors, this time Libyan non-specialists, was appointed to interpret its findings. They reached the opposite conclusion, not least, says Montagnier, because of a fatal mistranslation that saw the correct word “recombinant”, meaning a specific strain of HIV, interpreted as “genetically modified”, suggesting the HI virus was man-made.
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn10825
www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=289013&area=/insight/insight__international/
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