The topic of HIV is a hot one, one that leads to endless debates over the source and true nature of the disease. Many people, including experts and scientists, say that HIV is an impossibility in nature, and that it had to have been created in a lab. Dr. Horowitz is one of these experts, but there are others and the numbers of those that question the source for HIV are growing.
That is what brought this story to our attention. Researchers claim that they've discovered an HIV infection in a woman that is much closer to SIV than they've seen in humans before. SIV is a gorilla strain but this is the first time that SIV is the source for an HIV infection in a human.
They they say that this strain will still respond to the standard anti-virals and is no more deadly than other strains. It isn't detectable, however, by standard tests, so our understanding of how many people might have this strain is limited at best.
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