Doctor Who Discovered the AIDS Virus Says Cure Is Possible

Thirty-five years ago this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study of five mysterious lung infections that were affecting previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an immunologist at UCLA, was the doctor who cared for those patients and wrote the report. Immediately following the report, doctors across the country began reporting similar symptoms in patients. It would take two more years to conclusively determine the cause as AIDS. Three decades and 34 million deaths later, Gottlieb continues his work on HIV. He believes that within the next 60 years there will be a cure.