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Scientists Discover New HIV Strain for First Time in Nearly 2 Decades
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Nov 8, 2019, 4:50:39 PM11/8/19
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https://ktla.com/2019/11/06/scientists-discover-new-hiv-strain-for-first-
time-in-nearly-2-decades/
For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new
strain of HIV.
The strain is a part of the Group M version of HIV-1, the same family of
virus subtypes to blame for the global HIV pandemic, according to Abbott
Laboratories, which conducted the research along with the University of
Missouri, Kansas City. The findings were published Wednesday in the
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
HIV has several different subtypes or strains, and like other viruses, it
has the ability to change and mutate over time. This is the first new
Group M HIV strain identified since guidelines for classifying subtypes
were established in 2000. It is important to know what strains of the
virus are circulating to ensure that tests used to detect the disease are
effective.
“It can be a real challenge for diagnostic tests,” Mary Rodgers, a co-
author of the report and a principal scientist at Abbott, said. Her
company tests more than 60% of the world’s blood supply, she said, and
they have to look for new strains and track those in circulation so “we
can accurately detect it, no matter where it happens to be in the world.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, said current treatments for HIV are effective against
this strain and others. However, identifying a new strain provides a more
complete map of how HIV evolves.
“There’s no reason to panic or even to worry about it a little bit,” Fauci
said. “Not a lot of people are infected with this. This is an outlier.”
For scientists to be able to declare that this was a new subtype, three
cases of it must be detected independently. The first two were found in
the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1983 and 1990.
The two strains were “very unusual and didn’t match other strains,”
Rodgers said. The third sample found in Congo was collected in 2001 as a
part of a study aimed at preventing mother-to-child transmission of the
virus. The sample was small, and while it seemed similar to the two older
samples, scientists wanted to test the whole genome to be sure. At the
time, there wasn’t technology to determine if this was the new subtype.
So scientists at Abbott and the University of Missouri developed new
techniques to study and map the 2001 sample. Rodgers said it was “like
searching for a needle in a haystack,” and then “pulling the needle out
with a magnet.”
They were able to fully sequence the sample, meaning they were able to
create a full picture of what it was, and determine that it was, in fact,
subtype L of Group M.
It’s unclear how this variant of the virus may impact the body
differently, if it does act differently at all. Current HIV treatments can
fight a wide variety of virus strains, and it is believed that these
treatments can fight this newly named one.
“This discovery reminds us that to end the HIV pandemic, we must continue
to out think this continuously changing virus and use the latest
advancements in technology and resources to monitor its evolution,” study
co-author, Dr. Carole McArthur, a professor in the department of oral and
craniofacial sciences at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, said in
a statement.
About 36.7 million in the world are living with HIV, according to World
Health Organization. UNAIDS estimates that in 2016, some 1.8 million
people became newly infected.
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denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
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truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
https://ktla.com/2019/11/06/scientists-discover-new-hiv-strain-for-first-
time-in-nearly-2-decades/
For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new
strain of HIV.
The strain is a part of the Group M version of HIV-1, the same family of
virus subtypes to blame for the global HIV pandemic, according to Abbott
Laboratories, which conducted the research along with the University of
Missouri, Kansas City. The findings were published Wednesday in the
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
HIV has several different subtypes or strains, and like other viruses, it
has the ability to change and mutate over time. This is the first new
Group M HIV strain identified since guidelines for classifying subtypes
were established in 2000. It is important to know what strains of the
virus are circulating to ensure that tests used to detect the disease are
effective.
“It can be a real challenge for diagnostic tests,” Mary Rodgers, a co-
author of the report and a principal scientist at Abbott, said. Her
company tests more than 60% of the world’s blood supply, she said, and
they have to look for new strains and track those in circulation so “we
can accurately detect it, no matter where it happens to be in the world.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, said current treatments for HIV are effective against
this strain and others. However, identifying a new strain provides a more
complete map of how HIV evolves.
“There’s no reason to panic or even to worry about it a little bit,” Fauci
said. “Not a lot of people are infected with this. This is an outlier.”
For scientists to be able to declare that this was a new subtype, three
cases of it must be detected independently. The first two were found in
the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1983 and 1990.
The two strains were “very unusual and didn’t match other strains,”
Rodgers said. The third sample found in Congo was collected in 2001 as a
part of a study aimed at preventing mother-to-child transmission of the
virus. The sample was small, and while it seemed similar to the two older
samples, scientists wanted to test the whole genome to be sure. At the
time, there wasn’t technology to determine if this was the new subtype.
So scientists at Abbott and the University of Missouri developed new
techniques to study and map the 2001 sample. Rodgers said it was “like
searching for a needle in a haystack,” and then “pulling the needle out
with a magnet.”
They were able to fully sequence the sample, meaning they were able to
create a full picture of what it was, and determine that it was, in fact,
subtype L of Group M.
It’s unclear how this variant of the virus may impact the body
differently, if it does act differently at all. Current HIV treatments can
fight a wide variety of virus strains, and it is believed that these
treatments can fight this newly named one.
“This discovery reminds us that to end the HIV pandemic, we must continue
to out think this continuously changing virus and use the latest
advancements in technology and resources to monitor its evolution,” study
co-author, Dr. Carole McArthur, a professor in the department of oral and
craniofacial sciences at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, said in
a statement.
About 36.7 million in the world are living with HIV, according to World
Health Organization. UNAIDS estimates that in 2016, some 1.8 million
people became newly infected.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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