Originally published August 2 2005
U.S. doctors find source of new, deadlier AIDS strain
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The person who is a source for a new, rapid-killing AIDS strain has been found, report U.S. doctors.
Public-health officials in New York City issued a warning because the patient apparently had developed a virulent form of HIV -- the organism that causes AIDS -- that was resistant to virtually all drugs and caused a rapid destruction of the man's immune system.
The original source of the infection is a patient in Connecticut who infected the New York man during anonymous rectal intercourse at a sex club in the city on Oct. 22, 2004.
Within three months, the New York man was diagnosed with HIV, and his CD4 blood-cell count -- a marker of the health of his immune system -- had been reduced to double digits.
The new HIV strain appeared to be multi-drug resistant, but Blick said the alarm may have been overblown, because his patient now has a stable infection that is being controlled by two drugs.
Nor is that patient's life partner, who is also infected with a similarly highly resistant strain, rapidly progressing," Blick told United Press International at the 3rd International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment.
Their HIV database had produced a 99.5 percent match between the New York man and one of Blick's patients, CT01.
Blick later received another call from the lab that there was a 98.5 percent match with CT01's partner, CT02.
Fuzeon, which prevents entry of HIV into cells, is one of two drugs the 52-year-old man -- who has a long history of HIV infection -- can still take because his viral strain is resistant to all other medications.
The only other drug that keeps the virus at bay is efavirenz (Sustiva), a non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor, which prevents the virus from replicating.
CT02, a 41-year-old man who has lived with CT01 for 12 years, had insertive anal intercourse without ejaculation with the same man.
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