New and compelling scientific evidence has emerged in support of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately spreading HIV to 426 Libyan children in 1998.
The evidence redoubles the international pressure on Libyan president Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to ensure that the six are acquitted when the Libyan court issues its verdict on 19 December.
By examining viral extracts from some of the children, Oliver Pybus of the University of Oxford and his colleagues were able to work backwards to establish that specific mutations in 40 per cent of the HIV cases evolved before the nurses arrived at…
