Aids super-virus
HIV and AIDS scientists on Sunday caution that a new fast-acting strain of virus resistant to most anti-retroviral drugs had emerged in New York.
HIV and AIDS scientists on Sunday caution that a new fast-acting strain of virus resistant to most anti-retroviral drugs had emerged in New York.
Health officials said a man in his 40s, who reported multiple sex partners and unprotected intercourse, might be the harbinger of a new aggressive form of the disease which normally takes eight to 10 years to develop.
Thomas Friedman, the city’s health commissioner, said the strain might be “difficult or impossible to treatâ€.
Multi-drug resistance and rapid progression have been recorded among AIDS patients before, but it was the combination that worried New York officials, who said the patient showed resistance to three of the four classes of retroviral drugs.
Guardian
Health officials said a man in his 40s, who reported multiple sex partners and unprotected intercourse, might be the harbinger of a new aggressive form of the disease which normally takes eight to 10 years to develop.
Thomas Friedman, the city’s health commissioner, said the strain might be “difficult or impossible to treatâ€.
Multi-drug resistance and rapid progression have been recorded among AIDS patients before, but it was the combination that worried New York officials, who said the patient showed resistance to three of the four classes of retroviral drugs.
Guardian