HIV super strain debunked; New York case not a "supervirus"

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HIV super strain debunked; New York case not a "supervirus"
WHAT WAS IT? / Connecticut doctor claims patient as source of infections

Julie Weisberg / Xtra.ca / Thursday, August 18, 2005


Three more men have been identified as having a drug-resistant form of HIV similar to the one at the centre of last spring's New York City's "supervirus" media storm, but a Connecticut doctor says it isn't a new superstrain.

Gary Blick, an HIV specialist based in Norwalk, Connecticut and the founder of the Connecticut HIV/AIDS Task Force, says it was one of his patients who infected the New York City man in question and, unlike the NYC man, that man has not developed AIDS, nor has his partner whom he infected several years earlier.


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