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“German AIDS researchers have discovered a protein common in semen that boosts the infectious potential of HIV 100,000-fold - a remarkable finding that may show how the virus can spread through sexual contact and also suggests new strategies to stop the epidemic.
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The new study suggests that scientists may have been missing something very important. “This is one of the most interesting new perspectives on HIV transmission to emerge in years,” said Dr. Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco.
Greene said the work may solve a mystery that has puzzled AIDS researchers - why a virus that appears weakly infectious in laboratory dishes can spread explosively through sexual contact.”
Read the article over at the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.
Basically this discovery can potentially lead to new ways of fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS. Tremendous news!
More news later today.
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