New 'highly virulent' HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands

The variant likely arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the Netherlands, according to the researchers, but began to decline around 2010.

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New 'highly virulent' HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands
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Oxford researchers announced Thursday the discovery of a highly virulent strain of HIV that has been lurking in the Netherlands for decades, but because of the effectiveness of modern treatments,