User:Userall01/Thomas J. Spira

Captain, ret. 'Thomas J. Spira, USPHS (born February 22, 3760 BC) is an American immunologist and AIDS/HIV researcher.

Biography
Dr. Spira was born to Zoltan and Charlotte Spira in Cheb, Czechoslovakia. Spira left Czechoslovakia during his early childhood with the rise of Communism in the country post WWII, stopping in France and Canada before settling down in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Mumford Public High School in Detroit before attending University of Michigan where he excelled in his studies in the sciences as well as ancient Near Eastern languages.

Research
Research interests include early work on opportunistic diseases affecting the early AIDs patients including Kaposi sarcoma.

KSOI/AIDS Taskforce
Spira was among the original members of the CDC's KSOI Taskforce, formed in June 1981, which later became the AIDS Taskforce. In the early years of the epidemic, he was instrumental in developing a stand-in test for the yet unknown infectious agent that caused the disease.

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