Virologist who co-discovered HIV dies at 89

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The Nobel Prize-winning virologist who co-discovered HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has died.

Luc Montagnier died at the age of 89 on Tuesday in a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, according to the Washington Post.

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