RS> There has in fact been a strain of HIV found here too which
RS> looks like it may well be useful as an HIV vaccine etc.

BG> Pass, thanks all the same.

Oh sure, no argument there. Its main value is in places like
africa and SE Asia where the dominant strain is a lot easier to
get infected with, and its primarily a heterosexual disease, unlike
here where its almost entirely just poofters and bisexuals etc.

BG> it'll be interesting if they manage to find
BG> out why those women are immune to HIV too.

RS> Its a different strain which produces that. Strain
RS> of HIV. HIV is rather easy to work the DNA out with,
RS> thats what determines the strain, the DNA sequence.

BG> I'd have expected scores of different strains by now though.

There are. Its just that its extremely rare that
you have a strain which does not ever sero convert.

BG> Why is it that HIV appears not to mutate as
BG> frequently or as quickly as most other viruses?

In fact it mutates a lot faster than most. The only
common ones that mutate faster are flu and colds etc.
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