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Thursday, July 17, 2003The study involved 1,633 patients from 17 European countries who were recently diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS and who had not yet been treated for it, according to the Times. About 9.6 percent of the patients were resistant to at least one of the three types of anti-retroviral drugs that suppress the virus that causes AIDS, the newspaper said. I always wondered about that. Viruses are much better at changing their genome than bacteria, which we know are good at developing drug resistance. We were bound to see an increase in HIV resistance sooner or later, especially with the reliance on long-term use of antivirals to suppress the illness. Which raises the question of whether sending large amounts of HIV meds to Africa is a wise move. Perhaps it would be better to concentrate on improving nutrition and public hygeine - and to focus on prevention. posted by Sydney on 7/17/2003 10:55:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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