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Article: Brudnoy, feeling healthier, launches AIDS research drive
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1996
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Looking fit and armed with an encouraging new report on his
recovering immune system, radio talk-show host David Brudnoy
yesterday launched a drive to raise $10 million for AIDS research at
Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals.
Two years ago, Brudnoy, whose show airs on WBZ-AM (1030), lay near
death at MGH from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
He had dismissed his worsening symptoms as "the flu," even though
he knew he had been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus,
which causes AIDS, since at least 1988.
"I was in a state of high denial," Brudnoy said. "I'd lost my
courage. Because two years back . . . no one knew anybody who could
survive AIDS once serious ...