While thousands of previously healthy people were suddenly falling ill and dying throughout the ’80s and ’90s, everyone was looking for answers. Some of these answers might be found in the resume of Robert Gallo, a U.S. military contractor who developed bioweapon viruses in the late ’60s and early ’70s…and was one of the first people to identify the HIV virus in 1983.

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