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By Douglas Starr. 441 pp. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. $27.50. ISBN 0-679-41875-X.

On February 9, 1999, Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister of France; Georgina Dufoix, minister of social affairs under Fabius; and her subordinate, Edmond Hervé, stood before a tribunal in the Court of Justice of the Republic, where they were charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence. These former high officials of the French government were accused of delaying the introduction of a simple test, available from an American company, that enabled blood banks to detect human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in blood donors. That delay, the prosecutors claim, was meant to give French scientists time to perfect their own test for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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