In the Spring of 1999,six Medics Were Accused of Purposely

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In the spring of 1999,six medics were accused of purposely infecting over 400 Libyan children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital.Explain how a team of researchers were able to construct and use the phylogeny in the figure above to convince the Libyan Court to lift its death sentence for the "Bulgarian six."

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Definitions:

Proportion

A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

Independent

Not influenced or controlled by others; acting freely.

P(A|B)

The likelihood of event A happening provided that event B has taken place.

P(B|A)

The probability of event B occurring given that event A has already occurred.