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The lessons of HIV

Posted on October 02, 2008

Via BBC News Online: Colonial clue to the rise of HIV. Excerpt:Research published last year found the viral ancestor of a subtype of HIV responsible for most modern cases in the US and Europe in a blood sample taken in Leopoldville, the capital of Belgian Congo - now Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Now the same team, from the University of Arizona at Tucson, has found another sample containing a different subtype in a 1960 sample from a different patient in the same city.By analysing the genetic differences between the two viruses, and calculating the amount of time t...

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