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HIV Circulated in the US for Years Before AIDS Recognized in 1981
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Phylogenetic evaluation of HIV in frozen stored blood samples indicates that subtype B of the virus, the predominant variant outside subSaharan Africa, moved from Africa to Haiti around 1966 and from there to the US in a single migration around 1969, scientists report in the PNAS Early Edition, published online on October 29. Reuters Health Information
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Rapid HIV Test Has High False-Positive Rate
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A clinical trial set up to study rapid HIV testing in the emergency department identified a high rate of false-positive test results associated with the OraQuick ADVANCE Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test. Reuters Health Information
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AIDS Pioneers, Cancer Researcher Win Nobel Prize
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Two French scientists who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus and a German who identified human papilloma virus as the cause of cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday. Reuters Health Information
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