• New human HIV strain discovered in France
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[quote=wikinews]A woman in Paris, France has been found to be infected by strain of the HIV virus with a lineage that is closer to the Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) normally found in gorillas than that in chimpanzees. The new strain has been designated as P by the University of Rouen researchers is the first confirmed human infection of an SIV from a non Chimpanzee source. "We have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus in a Cameroonian woman. It is closely related to gorilla simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVgor) and shows no evidence of recombination with other HIV-1 lineages. This new virus seems to be the prototype of a new HIV-1 lineage that is distinct from HIV-1 groups M, N and O. We propose to designate it HIV-1 group P," said the researchers. The 62 year old woman originally from Cameroon in Africa and who emigrated to France 5 years ago is healthy and shows no sign of AIDS. Her claims of no previous contact with gorillas or with bushmeat suggests human to human infection. The prevalence of the new strain is as yet unknown, and researchers are sifting through the woman's contacts for other possible infections. At the moment the most likely pathway of infection is of gorilla to human, although it cannot be ruled out that this new strain began in chimpanzees before moving to gorillas and humans.[/quote] Oh nooes! more viruses, the human race is doomed!
lol oh well
It's French, we shouldn't have any problem beating it.
oh well, as long as it doesn't spread to other countries
It'll surrender to us!
[QUOTE=Zeke129;16485392]It's French, we shouldn't have any problem beating it.[/QUOTE] lol'd
I guess the discovery had the french straining the greens [img]http://chrisstubbs.com/AustinPowers.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("News puns are allowed, but please don't post the Austin Powers picture" - verynicelady))[/highlight]
Nuke it.
A new HIV strain, I'm not surprised by this event.
Won't affect anyone on facepunch.
So this means somewhere along the line someones been fucking monkeys?
There are already loads of HIV strains, as HIV positive patients are urged not to have unprotected sex with even other HIV positive people because they could pick up a different strain. :laugh:
lol france is teh dumb
Noo michel gondry
Those monkeys... :argh:
people need to quit getting on with monkeys
[QUOTE=Zeke129;16485392]It's French, we shouldn't have any problem beating it.[/QUOTE] You win...I don't know what but i'll think of something...
[QUOTE=IceTea;16486014]You win...I don't know what but i'll think of something...[/QUOTE] how about you think of leaving, as well as anyone else who thinks basically saying "france sucks" is clever or witty?
i blame french woman's uncleanliness
Sigma-Lambda is French everybody
[QUOTE=Zeke129;16485392]It's French, we shouldn't have any problem beating it.[/QUOTE] Possible post of the year. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-golfclap.gif[/img]
isn't it kind of weird how shit like this comes in threes? (lol 10 points to whoever gets that reference) First a new strain of the H1N1 flu.. then that Plauge thing in China.. and now this? Shit, the same happens with mainstream movies too.. You get the original, some shitty knock off and a crap straight-to-dvd version.. or am I smoking too much :weed: ?
[QUOTE=bobste;16486273]i blame french woman's uncleanliness[/QUOTE] teh french THEUY EAT FROGS
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;16486770]teh french THEUY EAT FROGS[/QUOTE] bobster is actually french and a communist also a jew and a muslim and a baker he is also a rare kind of flower found only in the gobi desert
It says that the most likely method of transference is from gorillas to humans. So furries are trying to kill us?
Who had the dumb idea of eating a monkey's brain in the first place?
[QUOTE=One Long Sausage;16485416]oh well, as long as it doesn't spread to other countries[/QUOTE] it might not have been sexually spread, that's the scary part
[QUOTE=Chippay;16486944]bobster is actually french and a communist also a jew and a muslim and a baker he is also a rare kind of flower found only in the gobi desert[/QUOTE] dude i wish i was a rare kind of flower that'd be p. fucking cool
So is it the French Flu now? Catchy Name.
So, now that we've got new AIDS, Swine Flu and Pneumonic Plague ravaging China, I bet Madagascar's just about ready to commit ritual suicide.
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