the infection at the hospital resulted from poor hygiene and reuse of syringes, and that the infections began before the arrival of the nurses and doctor in 1998. Through hospital records and the DNA sequences of the virus, they traced it to patient n.356 who was admitted 28 times between 1994–97 in Ward B, ISO and Ward A, and theorized that this patient was the probable source of the infection. The first cross-contamination occurred during that patient's 1997 admission. The report concludes that the admission records of a total of 21 of the children "definitively prove that the HIV infection in the Al-Fatih Hospital was already active in 1997" and that "Ward B was already heavily contaminated in November 1997." Montagnier and Colizzi both testified in person at the trial of record for the defense, and the report was submitted in evidence. Final report of Luc Montagnier and Vittorio Colizzi Luc Montagnier (Paris) and Vittorio Colizzi (Rome) were appointed as international scientific consultants by the Secretary of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Libyan report The prosecution advanced a contrary report drawn up by a Libyan expert panel. The scientific community became politically embroiled in events when the criminal court in Benghazi rejected Montagnier/Colizzi in favor of the conclusions of the Libyan experts. After the conviction, Colizzi said the scientific evidence being used against them "is so irrational it's unbelievable" and the verdict read "like a bad spy film." Genetic analysis first published in Nature On 6 December 2006, the influential science journal Nature published a new study which examined the mutation history of the HIV found in blood samples from some of the children, and concluded that a number of those children had been infected well before the six defendants arrived in Libya. In addition, a common ancestor of the strains that infected the children was already present in Libya. The study was based on statistical models of the rate of evolution in HIV derived from previous outbreaks. The publication was reported in newspapers world-wide and sparked an editorial campaign by Nature calling for the acquittal of the defendants. The authors of the study agreed to make fully available all the data they had used so that independent confirmations could be made. Libyan Journal of Medicine: How Do We Find the Truth? Omar Bagasra and his group discussed in detail the previous published reports and asked for examination of the CD4+