HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who 203
Daniel_Stuckey writes "No man is an island, but evolutionarily, each person functions like one for the HIV virus. That's according to Thomas Leitner, a researcher working on a project aimed at creating technology for tracking HIV through a population. The technology, which is being studied at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, may allow people to identify who infected them with the virus, a development that could have major implications in criminal proceedings. "If you're familiar with Darwin's finches, you have a population of birds on one island and they keep moving and evolving as they spread to other islands so that each population is a little different," Leitner said. "With HIV, it's the same. Every person infected with HIV has a slightly different form of the virus. It's the ultimate chameleon because it evolves this way.""
Sorry, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, you can become infected more than once.. (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_superinfection [wikipedia.org]
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Startling fact: You can get a free HIV test virtually anywhere in the United States.
Second startling fact: You're free to take gambles with your own life. You're not free to take gambles with the life of another, which is exactly what you're doing if you're having sexual intercourse with someone while you have an unknown HIV status.
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Sick people who know they are sick with a sexually transmitted disease, and then have sex anyway, ARE GUILTY OF MURDER. Doesn't matter if they are homo or hetero.