Posted on 08/02/2009 8:44:37 PM PDT by neverdem
French researchers find new strain of HIV virus in African woman who moved to Paris
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine...
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Researchers led by Drs. Lawrence Corey and Jia Zhu of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that long after the areas where the herpes sores existed seem to be clear, they still have immune-cell activity that can encourage HIV infection.
Herpes is marked by recurring outbreaks and has been associated with higher rates of infection with HIV. It had been thought that the breaks in the skin were the reason for higher HIV rates, but a study last year found that treatment of herpes with drugs did not reduce the HIV risk.
The researchers tested the skin of herpes patients for several weeks after their sores had healed and found that, compared with other genital skin, from twice to 37 times more immune cells remained at the locations where the sores had been.
HIV targets immune cells and in laboratory tests the virus reproduced three to five times faster in tissue from the healed sites as in tissue from other areas...
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How is this getting passed on from gorillas to people. I dread to imagine.
micro ping
Raw !??
Raw?
Kill it.
I thought HIV was most closely related to a SIV in chimps.
Is this a new strain of HIV mutated from existing ones?
Or is this a new HIV that is new like bird flu in people compared to swine flu in people?
Dude. I don’t care. Kill it.
So is this going to put a damper on the British Cougars vacation plans?
Just wondering.
I think the Gorilla would have to be dead before he would allow a human to try that .....
if that is what you are implying.
The Gorillas eat the humans?
or visa versa.
Isnt there a Chinese herby thing that black markets for a good $ for gorrilla hands?
I know shark fin soup is a bit pricey but lucrative.
You have a funny yet bit twisted sense of humor.
I like it.
Ok this post may be too adult for FR Family fare but....
I have heard African woman (educated women) claim that men enjoy lotsa Kosher type salt in the area where one would use to procreate or empty their waste site and it causes great lacerations hence wounds/infection.
If they allow that then I say ship them a cargo load of Hydrogen peroxide to disinfect and call it a day.
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Someone there is boinking the simians..
Classy Green Eyed Blonde.
Like a raped ape.
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