Could the Black Death protect against HIV? :The Scientist [13/7/2001]

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by David Nicholson

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Could the Black Death protect against HIV?

Email: David Nicholson - dn@davidnicholson.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010713-04

LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black Death, in the Middle Ages - Yersinia pestis - might give people now carrying the mutation increased resistance to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) compared to non-carriers. New research has thrown doubt on the micro-organism that was thought to have caused the Black Death, but the link to HIV resistance seems to remain.


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