A new variant of HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS, has emerged, scientists report online August 2 in Nature Medicine. The discovery of the new version, in a 62-year-old Cameroonian woman living in Paris, suggests this virus and related primate-infecting viruses will continue to morph, though not necessarily into forms that are lethal to humans.
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