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Published online 19 December 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061218-3
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Medics sentenced to death in Libya
Health workers accused of deliberate HIV infection found guilty.
A Libyan court today condemned to death six foreign health professionals accused of infecting over 400 children with HIV in 1998. The court refused to take into account a swathe of independent scientific evidence indicating that the outbreak had begun several years before the accused began working there and was caused by poor hygiene at the hospital.
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