Anti-retroviral resistant form of HIV. Defies all existing treatments. Turn into AIDS potentially up to 100 times faster than ever before.
Immorality has never been so deadly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1412258,00.html
HIV and Aids scientists and advisers on both sides of the Atlantic urged caution yesterday over suggestions that a new fast-acting strain of the HIV virus resistant to most anti-retroviral drugs had emerged in New York.
Health officials in New York suggested that a man in his 40s, who reported multiple sex partners and unprotected anal intercourse, often under the influence the amphetamine crystal meth, might be the harbinger of an aggressive form of the disease which can normally take eight to 10 years or more to develop.
Thomas Friedman, the city’s health commissioner, said on Friday the strain might be “difficult or impossible to treat”.
The unnamed man was only diagnosed with HIV in December, after complaining of feeling ill in November. He had reported tested negative in May 2003, but is now said to be displaying full-blown Aids, suggesting the disease took from two to 20 months to progress.
Multi-drug resistance and rapid progression have both been recorded among Aids patients before but it was the combination that worried New York officials, who said the patient showed resistance to three of the four classes of retroviral drugs.
They have also been worried that increasing abuse involving crystal meth in the city may help lead to more unsafe sex through loss of inhibitions. Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, quoted in yesterday’s New York Times, said: “It is just a sin in our society when we know how it is transmitted from one person to another and we should be able to conduct themselves such that they don’t catch it themselves, and certainly that they do not infect anybody else.”
