Wednesday, August 5, 2009

New HIV Strain Discovered

A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

For more info:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=8233721