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Henrietta Lacks was a poor tobacco farmer from Virginia who died from aggressive cervical cancer in 1951.
After her death, doctors harvested her cells at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital without her consent or her family’s knowledge.
Her cells, nicknamed “HeLa,” were special, and used to develop the AIDS cocktail, the polio vaccine, treatments for hemophilia, herpes, influenza and leukemia, and in-vitro fertilization.