Study Disputes Case in Libyan AIDS Trial

December 6th, 2006

(AP) -- Racing against a courtroom deadline, scientists have produced new evidence that a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses at a Libyan hospital did not deliberately infect hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.

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