A strain of HIV that progresses to full-blown AIDS within three years if left untreated has become “epidemic” among newly-infected patients in Cuba who reported having unprotected sex with multiple partners, according to astudy published this week by international researchers working with patients and doctors on the Caribbean island nation.
The strain of HIV — a combination of three subtypes of the virus — progresses so fast, researchers at Belgium’s Catholic University of Leuvenreported they worry that patients infected with the mutated virus may not seek antiretroviral therapy until it’s too late.
Aggressive HIV strain identified in Cuba, research says | The Miami Herald The Miami Herald
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