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GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

This is a waste of money. Zoomers and millennials don't gently caress so the whole aids problem would have solved itself for free anyway

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MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




sigher posted:

There's people immune to HIV? :confused:

There's a gene mutation called CCR5 delta 32 that cropped up in northern Europe one or two millennia ago. About 1% of people descended from northern Europeans inherited it from both parents, which makes them immune. About 10% have one copy, which makes them a bit more resistant.

(Also there are people who seem to be resistant for other rarer reasons and on the other hand we think there's some still-uncommon strains of HIV that wouldn't be affected by the CCR5 mutation so nothing's certain anyway)

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Feb 16, 2022

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