Scientists published in this week’s Nature Medicine journal a significant finding of a new HIV strain isolated in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It is distinct from the currently identified three strains and is appears to be closely related to simian strains of HIV found in gorillas. Scientists speculate this new strain started out in the gorilla, or even chimpanzee, population and has jumped to humans. It’s unknown how widespread this strain is, but this discovery reminds us that HIV is a fast-evolving disease and continued efforts should be made in watching for the emergence of new HIV strains. [via Yahoo! News]
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Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
August 4th, 2009 at 7:32 am
I have heard that some of the World leaders want to reduce the Population to some where between 250 – 500 million by the year of
2020. This might do just that.
May GOD save us from this fate.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I have heard also that at a government lab just off the New England coast there is a level 5 containment facility that has engineered an HIV strain and comingled it with an asian flu that makes it airborn and highly contagious…WHY OH WHY WOULD HUMANS DO THIS??? what if this thing gets out of containment? are we sowing the seeds of our own extermination?? what possible good could come from such a thing??? KILL IT…BEFORE IT KILLS US..NOW!!
August 4th, 2009 at 9:10 am
How can this strain found in gorillas “jump” to humans? It has always been my understanding that HIV is transmitted through unprotected sex with someone who has the virus or through other body fluid contact.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I am curious as to how a new strain of HIV can jump from gorillas to humans as well because we all know that it can be transmitted through unprotected sex with an infected person but the bigger question now is, what are scientists doing in relation to finding a cure for one of the biggest killers of our generation and whether a cure will come in our lifetime.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
It is my firm belief that this virus was created by humans to eradicate non-desirables. Unfortuately it has spread to some people who are wealthy. I know there is a cure and the government has it. I met the person who sued the government , who is a gay attorney. He showed the ‘flow’chart’ of the governments-secrets. There is a cure for a certain kind of AIDS AND IT HAS A PATENT NUMBER. The cure will come out when the poor, gay or undesirables die and the government is then satisfied. I highly question this new kind of AIDS AND THE GOVERNMENT. In the book store, look under Dr. Boyd Graves, see if there are any books you can get from him. Good luck. I will stay in touch with the website. I may be able to help .
August 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
there is so much we don’t know about HIV — the therories of this being man-made — whether there is a cure/vacine — i’m not sure about any of this. it would seem to me “if” there is a cure/vacine the chances are somehow – someone would have leaked this info. the one thing I KNOW to do is hold on to my faith as a christian and trust GOD through the mess we are in on this planet!
August 4th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
There is already an arguement as to the authenticity of the so called existing strains of the HIV virus, no scientists living or dead has come up to show any clear evidence of its exisistence via microscope. Diff organizations have put up huge prices in dollars for anyone who can prove its existence yet no one has cliamed any price. Now the ques is what is the whole noise about this phantom virus. They should stop deceiving us.
August 5th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
deceiving, being lied to, only “knowing” half-truths — unfortunately that’s the way it is now, before we came into this fallen world and it’s not liable to change anytime soon. i just suggest going with sources you trust — keep it basic & simple useing common sence: as in washing u’r hands, eatting right, taking a good B- complex vitiman, and doing what you can to keep a healthy immune system & as i said before trusting GOD to provide. of course don’t have “casual sex” and just not worry where the “new strain” came from — as a medical person, viruses do mutate or we could cure the common cold so just live u’r life and try to “do the right thing” help others and things will work out.
August 10th, 2009 at 8:47 am
This is all in the blood sugar, yeast infection, candidiasis, it is sugar. My husband is 100% systemic, in the blood, Staph, MRSA, yeast scales all over his head, ears, mouth sore from the yeast, in the subpubic tube and floating like cotage cheese, 13 pressure sores and one to the bone on left buttox, fever, and has become worse as they did dysphagia tests when he could not swallow, talk, eat, and they continued to give him glucerna (high fructose corn syrup) and thicket (corn starch) turns to sugar, sugar in fake sugar turns to phymeldohide in the stomach. Stop the meds. with sugar, supplements with sugar or starch. Canned prepared foods in nursing homes have corn starch. I asked them to stop and the orders are shipped prepared in cans. They stopped his water 150cc three times a day. He needed no less than 300cc five times a day. High blood sugar and they then gave him sliding scale insulin. At home he did not need insulin for two years. He is a dry alcoholic and terribly adicted to sugar. All of the dysphagia tests and it is the yeast infection. Giving Diflucan cleared it up temporarily but is much worse again and they stopped water and Diflucan but ave him prescription meds without Diflucan. Stop the sugar as it feeds cancer. Not is fruits or veg. as that is natural.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:32 am
AIDS is a sickness that man brought on himself from perverse thinking, I had been informed from the beginning it came from apes
Man having sex with animals. A very interesting book “Emerging
Virus” can’t recall the author and loaned the book to a friend at this moment, talks about every thing from small pox,nile virus,
Aids and all of our life threating illnesses are the same virus it just keep mutating and adapting to its enviroment. I dont trust the goverment or military, “I’ve watched to much X-Files” But if the author of that show thought it what makes us think that what we dont hear about makes it fiction? Trust in a authority higher than the most intellegent man or team on earth. They want to thin us out Wake up America. God has sent us signs to watch for.