Scientist Discover New HIV Strain
November 12, 2019“For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new strain of HIV”, ‘CNN Health’ reports.
HIV, just like any other virus, has several different subtypes and strains with the ability to mutate and change over time.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that current HIV treatments are effective over this specific stain as well as others. "There's no reason to panic or even to worry about it a little bit," she said. "Not a lot of people are infected with this. This is an outlier.”
"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 WHO. UNAIDS estimates that in 2016, some 1.8 million people became newly infected.
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