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The article did note of the population was Cubans located in Cuba or elsewhere. Also if they had figured how the population was infected by this aggressive strain.
This is what happens, when people from around the world travel to an island. People can get infected with many strains. Like keys to a lock, HIV is on a very fast evolution track, due to fast mutations. Test and treat, is the only way to beat, this. Cuba treats people with HIV, in a way that makes people not want to get tested.
I wonder why this is being reported as a new finding. I've been poz since 2003. By 2006, I had an AIDS diagnosis. My doctor was baffled at the time that I'd progressed so quickly to AIDS but when I tried to enter into a study for an entry inhibitor back in 2007 or so I was found to have a dual-tropic strain of the virus (It uses both the CCR5 as well as the CXCR4 routes of entry into my immune cells). In any event, I've been on meds and undetectable since 2006.
Richard Wilson
This is an important story, in scientific and prevention environments. But it reminds me that this online magazine really has abandoned people who have AIDS now.
February 19, 2015 • Chicago