Could the Black Death protect against HIV?
People who survived the Black Death could have passed on a mutation that prevents the human immunodeficiency virus entering cells.
Jul 12, 2001
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 -
Sue Scott and Chris Duncan from the University of Liverpool have suggested that the bacterium