New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon

Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 12:21 in Biology & Nature

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine....

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