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Nature 448, 230-231 (19 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448230a; Published online 18 July 2007
Special report High noon in Libya
Declan Butler
Abstract
This week sees yet another crisis point in the Libyan case of six foreign health professionals sentenced to death on charges of injecting hundreds of children with HIV. Declan Butler traces the efforts of scientists to help establish the truth.
Rich Roberts didn't realize what he was getting into last October, when he decided to mobilize his fellow Nobel laureates to draw attention to a death-penalty case in Libya. Six medical workers — five nurses from Bulgaria and a Palestinian doctor — were charged with deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the virus that causes AIDS.
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