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January 7, 2005
Benefits of the bubonic plague
This is not the first research to suggest people's genes could determine their susceptibility to HIV/Aids.
One study even suggested that people whose mother and father were both descended from ancestors who survived the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century appeared to be immune to HIV.
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the research, said: "Individual risk of acquiring HIV and experiencing rapid disease progression is not uniform within populations.
BBC NEWS | Health | Gene determines risk of HIV/Aids
Posted by thdyck on January 7, 2005
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