South Africa minister says World Cup may increase HIV/AIDS || New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon

South Africa minister says World Cup may increase HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS infection rates may increase when South Africa hosts the 2010 World Cup, the country’s health minister said Friday.

New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon

A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday’s edition of the journal Nature Medicine.


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