 Omar Bagasra of Department of Biology, South Carolina Center for Biotechnology and 
Mohammad Alsayari of the South Carolina Center for Biotechnology

The Case of the Libyan HIV-1 Outbreak

Prof Omar Bagasra and his group discussed in detail the previous published reports and asked for examination of the CD4+ T lymphocytes of the infected children to exclude the possibility of their intentional infection with HIV.Their hypothesis is that the children were infected as part of an AIDS vaccine trial.114 Nobel Laureates in the sciences co-signed an open letter to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi calling for a fair trial.