There's A Bug Going Around - Silman, Robert; Froelich, Steven
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There's A Bug Going Around is a medical thriller/black comedy where the principal character is HIV, the AIDS virus. Felix, the research scientist, needs it as a means of fulfilling his professional ambitions and for settling scores with his father. Bismarck, the homophobic President of a drug company, fears it and wants it hunted down and destroyed. Mrs Plank, the mother of a self-obsessed rock star, accepts it as a weapon in the war of belittlement against her son. Henry, the ineffectual shop assistant, is martyred because of it. Tiger, the gay militant, enlists it for political mobilisation…mehr

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There's A Bug Going Around is a medical thriller/black comedy where the principal character is HIV, the AIDS virus. Felix, the research scientist, needs it as a means of fulfilling his professional ambitions and for settling scores with his father. Bismarck, the homophobic President of a drug company, fears it and wants it hunted down and destroyed. Mrs Plank, the mother of a self-obsessed rock star, accepts it as a weapon in the war of belittlement against her son. Henry, the ineffectual shop assistant, is martyred because of it. Tiger, the gay militant, enlists it for political mobilisation and revenge. The book is a social dance macabre around this modern day plague. The novel was written in the 1990s at the height of the AIDS epidemic when the gay community particularly was threatened with a life threatening incurable and untreatable disease. The book presents a credible cure for AIDS and the appendix gives the true story of why this is so, the dramatic scientific conflict in identifying HIV and how this possible cure was overlooked in the process.
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Author of 'My Gang' in 'Signs of our Time', previously medical research on the pituitary hormones ACTH and endorphin in pregnancy and birth, and the pineal hormone melatonin in growth and puberty. Post retirement (from medicine) a theatre producer; now initiator of Doctors Club, a sort of internet co-op, and the BOP Theatre Company, to promote the under acknowledged genius of black theatre.