More ground has been gained in the fight to combat AIDS/HIV. Researchers involved in a study on chimpanzees that has spanned nine years feel they may have found what some call the “missing link” in HIV as it has evolved through the years. This link helps form a relation between the virus that infects but [...]

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In an alarming new discovery, a woman who hails from Cameroon, a nation in Africa, was recently diagnosed with a new strain of HIV that has researchers and scientists scrambling to find the source. Currently, there are three known strains of this virus, all of which are related to a simian version of the virus [...]

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In an effort to make testing on HIV/AIDS drugs more successful and more productive, scientists have produced a distinctive strain of the human AIDS virus that is capable of infecting monkeys, specifically the pig-tailed macaque. This will allow these monkeys to be tested with newly created vaccines before they have to be tested on humans. [...]

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