News: New HIV strain linked to faster development of AIDS...

liberalmusiclover

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People with a newly discovered strain of HIV may develop AIDS faster than other strains of the virus, according to a new study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

The HIV-1 recombinant strain A3/02, which is a fused form of the 02AG and A3 strains of HIV, has a shorter period of time from infection to AIDS development -- at five years -- compared with other common strains of HIV-1. The two strains that recombined to form this new one are the most common strains in Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. (There are more than 60 strains of HIV-1, and they can sometimes fuse together to make a recombined strain that is more aggressive.)

While the new strain has only been found in West Africa so far, increasing travel between different parts of the world provide cause for concern for the spread of recombinant HIV strains, noted the researchers from Lund University.

"HIV is an extremely dynamic and variable virus. New subtypes and recombinant forms of HIV-1 have been introduced to our part of the world, and it is highly likely that there are a large number of circulating recombinants of which we know little or nothing," study researcher Patrik Medstrand, a professor of clinical virology at the university, said in a statement. "We therefore need to be aware of how the HIV-1 epidemic changes over time."

The new findings are based on data from 152 people from Guinea-Bissau with HIV-1 who were followed as they developed AIDS and died from AIDS-related causes. The A3/02 subtype of HIV was identified in 13 percent of the people in the study, and was linked with a nearly three-fold increased risk of AIDS, or dying from AIDS-related causes, as other subtypes.

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TikiMiss

They need to quarantine these folks so the new strain doesnt leave west africa

manwhore

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three-fold increased risk of AIDS, or dying from AIDS-related causes, as other subtypes.

J a y

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at five years

Isn't that half the usual rate?

I thought this was going to be positive (no pun intended). Research was going well, then this is discovered

EdgeOfAddiction

Typical. Something worse always comes along just when you think you see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Gee

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Originally posted by TikiMiss

They need to quarantine these folks so the new strain doesnt leave west africa

Bad Influence

please sistren, wrap it up and get tested regularly if you're sexually active.

HIV & other STIs are terrible if left untreated. Many are asymptomatic so get tested.

J a y

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Originally posted by Bad Influence

please sistren, wrap it up and get tested regularly if you're sexually active.

HIV & other STIs are terrible if left untreated. Many are asymptomatic so get tested.

I attend my local clinic once every three months

RatedG²

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Originally posted by Bad Influence

please sistren, wrap it up and get tested regularly if you're sexually active.

HIV & other STIs are terrible if left untreated. Many are asymptomatic so get tested.

This. Sistrens get tested, you never know. Better to be safe than sorry

Goosey

They need to send in the Hoffman

UnusualBoy

It was expected, the virus would evolve and become stronger, this world is so ****ed up

Goosey

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Originally posted by UnusualBoy

It was expected, the virus would evolve and become stronger, this world is so ****ed up

It's God's way of saying "stay monogamous and only have sex to procreate"

Eternium

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Originally posted by J a y

Isn't that half the usual rate?

I thought this was going to be positive (no pun intended). Research was going well, then this is discovered

This is a positive finding. The sooner science discovers the horrors, the sooner we can start focusing on (hopefully) curing it as well as educating people on how to avoid the diseases.

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Originally posted by TikiMiss

They need to quarantine these folks so the new strain doesnt leave west africa

That wouldn't help. It would enable irresponsibility between those that are perceived to be "clean" and create a community with no understanding of how to personally avoid transmittable diseases and deal with them effectively.

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Originally posted by Bad Influence

please sistren, wrap it up and get tested regularly if you're sexually active.

HIV & other STIs are terrible if left untreated. Many are asymptomatic so get tested.

This x1,000,000. It can never be said enough.

Also, for drug users (which I don't condone and am personally against), make sure to never share anything intravenously.

Poe Dameron

This is why you should go and get tested even if you haven't had sex in months, you might not know what you have

Devon

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Originally posted by aidan_dolan

This is why you should go and get tested even if you haven't had sex in months, you might not know what you have

My local clinic frowns upon getting "tested" for the sake of getting tested. Since you can go to the clinic for free in Canada, you're wasting their resources for going in just out of curiosity. Only if you've been a complete **** or if you have symptoms you should be going in.

Everytime I go in for a three month test, they always give me a big lecture about how I'm "not high risk" enough to keep coming in every three months.

Donquizote

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Originally posted by J a y

Isn't that half the usual rate?

I thought this was going to be positive (no pun intended). Research was going well, then this is discovered

In some cases, HIV usually takes 15-20 years incubation time before the virus can paralyze immune system.

Quarantine people with this strain won't help if people are still not aware of how this disease gets transmitted. This is not flu virus.

TikiMiss

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Originally posted by Donquizote

In some cases, HIV usually takes 15-20 years incubation time before the virus can paralyze immune system.

Quarantine people with this strain won't help if people are still not aware of how this disease gets transmitted. This is not flu virus.

by quarantine, I meant lock 'em on an island until death do they part.

Grumpy Gills

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Originally posted by Devon

My local clinic frowns upon getting "tested" for the sake of getting tested. Since you can go to the clinic for free in Canada, you're wasting their resources for going in just out of curiosity. Only if you've been a complete **** or if you have symptoms you should be going in.

Everytime I go in for a three month test, they always give me a big lecture about how I'm "not high risk" enough to keep coming in every three months.

your clinic sounds basic and irresponsible as **** and dead at "have symptoms" like you can't be asymptomatic for years

Donquizote

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Originally posted by TikiMiss

by quarantine, I meant lock 'em on an island until death do they part.

HIV is not easy to get transmitted. The virus is not flu virus. You won't get infected unless the virus gets to your bloodstream via sexual intercourse or sharing the needles.

TikiMiss

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Originally posted by Donquizote

HIV is not easy to get transmitted. The virus is not flu virus. You won't get infected unless the virus gets to your bloodstream via sexual intercourse or sharing the needles.

yes, but people tend to love having sex and traveling and having sex overseas too

why do you think HIV spread as far and wide as it did after first mutating off of a primate?