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The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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See all →Conflict Over Collaboration in Virus Research
Dr. Robert Gallo
All right, explain one thing to me. Ten times ten times ten, my name is in every book ever written on the human retrovirus. Why would you get in bed with the French instead of me?
Dr. Don Francis
Is it you against the French? I thought we were all against the virus. If you go to court now, everybody loses. You, the people who die while you quibble...
Dr. Robert Gallo
What do you want?
[Interrupting]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Ethics vs. Profit in the Blood Industry
Blood Bank executive
Is the ] seriously suggesting that the blood industry spends $100M a year to use the test for the wrong disease because we have a handful of transfusion fatalities and eight dead hemophiliacs?
[[CDC]
Dr. Don Francis
How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost efficient for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you again until the amount of money you begin spending on lawsuits make it more profitable for you to save people than to kill them.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →M
Matthew Modine
Dr. Don Francis
A
Alan Alda
Dr. Robert Gallo
P
Patrick Bauchau
Dr. Luc Montagnier
N
Nathalie Baye
Dr. Françoise Barre
C
Christian Clemenson
Dr. Dale Lawrence
D
David Clennon
Mr. Johnstone
P
Phil Collins
Eddi Papasano
B
Bud Cort
Antique Shop Owner
A
Alex Courtney
Dr. Mika Popovic
D
David Dukes
Dr. Mervyn Silverman
R
Richard Gere
The Choreographer
D
David Marshall Grant
Dennis Seeley
R
Ronald Guttman
Dr. Jean-Claude Chermann
G
Glenne Headly
Dr. Mary Guinan
Anjelica Huston
Dr. Betsy Reisz
K
Ken Jenkins
Dr. Dennis Donohue
R
Richard Jenkins
Dr. Marc Conant
T
Tchéky Karyo
Dr. Willy Rozenbaum
S
Swoosie Kurtz
Mrs. Johnstone
J
Jack Laufer
Mrs. Johnstone
