Brett Meyers

Jan 28, 2023 | revealnews.org | Ike Sriskandarajah |Brett Meyers |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda

Dr. Gary Davis, an Ivy League-trained Black physician from Tulsa, Oklahoma, had a dream one night that the cure for AIDS would come from a goat. In the new podcast Serum, a reporting team at WHYY’s The Pulse and Local Trance Media delve into the unusual story of a Davis’ quest to develop the cure.  At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the early ’90s, Davis created a serum from goat blood that he believed could help cure HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.