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Virulent new strain of HIV


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The articles this pulls up for me are largely about tuberculosis, which, of course, is a common complication of HIV disease. TB is a disease which thrives in poverty: insufficient heat or food can be enough to make it turn on its host.

HIV2 is actually the less virulent form of HIV - in the west we chiefly see HIV1 which is a much faster acting virus. Even with today's medications I've seen guys go from infection to death in less than ten years with HIV1.

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The articles this pulls up for me are largely about tuberculosis, which, of course, is a common complication of HIV disease. TB is a disease which thrives in poverty: insufficient heat or food can be enough to make it turn on its host.

HIV2 is actually the less virulent form of HIV - in the west we chiefly see HIV1 which is a much faster acting virus. Even with today's medications I've seen guys go from infection to death in less than ten years with HIV1.

This is sort of what I was thinking. Many of the new cases of infection in Russia are among injection drug users, which are almost certain to already have a compromised immune system before HIV. It wouldn't surprise me if that was one of the major reasons for the subtypes virulence.

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