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Aggressive new HIV strain detected in Cuba
upi.com ^ | Feb. 14, 2015 | Denise Royal

Posted on 02/15/2015 7:30:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

A new HIV strain in some patients in Cuba appears to be much more aggressive and can develop into AIDS within three years of infection. Researchers said the progression happens so fast that treatment with antiretroviral drugs may come too late.

Without treatment, HIV infection usually takes 5 to 10 years to turn into AIDS, according to Anne-Mieke Vandamme, a medical professor at Belgium's University of Leuvan. According to the study, published in the journal EBioMedicine, Vandamme was alerted to the new aggressive strain of HIV by Cuban health officials who wanted to find out what was happening.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; cuba; cubarelations; hiv
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1 posted on 02/15/2015 7:30:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Just in time for Obama to encourage more travel to Castro Country with his lifting of the embargo, another shining example of his impeccable timing.


2 posted on 02/15/2015 7:32:40 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Perfect timing.


3 posted on 02/15/2015 7:33:21 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: txrefugee

Where are the obligatory comments about how AIDS doesn’t just affect homosexuals and drug users?

Also, don’t forget the great idea let homosexuals start donating blood for the blood supply.


4 posted on 02/15/2015 7:37:28 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wondering if $hithead talked to Castro and agreed to bring them here. After all, it’s “unfair” for Americans to be spared while third world people suffer.


5 posted on 02/15/2015 7:39:06 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How could this happen? Cuba has the best health care on earth. Also, isn’t homosexuality illegal there?


6 posted on 02/15/2015 7:44:08 AM PST by Tax-chick ("What does it give you, and what does it keep you from getting?")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

More bullsh!t “science”. Still patiently waiting for that heterosexual AIDS epidemic. I guess everyone has started behaving themselves after 100,000 years. Duesberg was right.


7 posted on 02/15/2015 7:44:21 AM PST by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

And O’bastard decreed...Now is the perfect time open trade and tourism with Cuba.


8 posted on 02/15/2015 7:44:27 AM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Interesting. The Castro regime has a long standing policy to lock up anyone testing positive for HIV.

One would think that would limit the spread, and therefore opportunity, for mutations.


9 posted on 02/15/2015 7:48:17 AM PST by null and void (People who deny history are trying to recreate it.)
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Anal Intrusion Death Sentence


10 posted on 02/15/2015 7:49:50 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%ij)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!


11 posted on 02/15/2015 7:55:37 AM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: “fundamentally transformed” is a euphemism for “wrecked beyond repair.”)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

excellent!


12 posted on 02/15/2015 7:58:15 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

In Cuba? Maybe their “containment” doesn’t work so well? From what I have heard they round up all the HIV positive people and put them in a camp (kind of like Gitmo) to live out the rest of their days. Maybe, since they are all doomed it is kind of an orgy there and this is a mixture of various strains?


13 posted on 02/15/2015 8:01:13 AM PST by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Does Obongo know of this?IWhen he finds out,he’ll (undoubtedly)send”Chartered Airplanes”to begin importation procedures.After all,it just isn’t FAIR that Cuba has this(and we don’t).Obongo will be remembered(for many unmentionable things),but certainly as”The Arbiter of What’s Fair”????


14 posted on 02/15/2015 8:02:20 AM PST by bandleader
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Who would have guessed that AIDS is a Muslim plot to kill off the world's homosexuals

Can goats get AIDS?

15 posted on 02/15/2015 8:12:45 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Dr. Pritchett
Where are the obligatory comments about how AIDS doesn’t just affect homosexuals and drug users?

Well not from me.

My standard response to threads like these is to repeat my 25 year old prediction that there will never, ever be a cure for HIV since it doesn't cause AIDS. AIDS victim-hood is primarily achieved by the victim's extensive use of drugs and/or their extensive participation in homosexual activities.

16 posted on 02/15/2015 8:14:21 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: txrefugee

Obama’s Gay buddies will love this Virgin Territory


17 posted on 02/15/2015 8:19:27 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Obamedra Strain


18 posted on 02/15/2015 8:30:54 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

You just know that Cuba will be a go to sex tourism destination for all orientations.


19 posted on 02/15/2015 8:31:37 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science.)
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To: null and void
Interesting. The Castro regime has a long standing policy to lock up anyone testing positive for HIV. One would think that would limit the spread, and therefore opportunity, for mutations.

The policy is more likely to result in Cuban homosexuals avoiding doctors and circumstances where they might be required to get tested.

I'm not surprised by this variant. As HIV spreads through the population, it will mutate.

20 posted on 02/15/2015 8:44:53 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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