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Defense against Ancient Virus Opened Door to HIV: Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=4EFE...
Early humans successfully fended off a virus that infected chimpanzees by evolving a protein capable of neutralizing it, according to a new study. But what goes around comes around, evolutionarily speaking: Four million years later, the same protein seems to have left us more vulnerable than other primates to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
When researchers sequenced the chimpanzee genome in 2005, the biggest difference between it and the human genome was the extinct PtERV1 retrovirus,
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HIV infection theory challenged
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6230580.stm
HIV attacks human immune cells, called T helper cells. Loss of these cells is gradual, often taking many years.
It was thought infected cells produced more HIV particles and that this caused the body to activate more T cells which in turn were infected and killed.
Modelling by UK and US researchers suggests that, if that was true, cells would die out in months not years.
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Cursed, Yet Blessed - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979763,00.h...
Agnes Munyiva has never thought of herself as a lucky woman. Desperately poor, she works as a prostitute out of her home, a tiny tin-roofed hut on the outskirts of Nairobi. To feed her family of five she entertains as many as 10 clients a day on her children's bed, charging the going rate of 25 cents a trick. Her latest boyfriend just landed in jail, and her kids -- forced to play outside in the mud while their mama "has a guest" -- often go hungry on a skimpy diet of corn mash.
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