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12290775

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-5-1
pubmed:abstractText
Honduras, the Central American country hardest hit by AIDS, may suffer from a particularly aggressive strain of HIV that is especially dangerous to women, US experts said. "We are investigating the presence in Honduras of (HIV) sub-type B, which is more aggressive than others and could be the reason why it is worse in this country," Winslow Klaslala, professor at the University of Miami, Florida, said. According to the Health Ministry, 7664 Hondurans have been infected with HIV since 1985, and 995 have died. That is 60% of the total number of HIV sufferers in the six countries of Central America and the incidence in women is unusually high at 36%. A team of experts, including members from Harvard University and the WHO, have been taking blood samples, primarily from HIV infected women, Klaslala said. They will analyze the blood to look for sub-type B, described by Klaslala as highly "aggressive and adaptable." "If it is present," he said, "women are particularly at risk." Honduran health authorities were paying close attention to the investigations. "If they show that the sub-type that attacks in Honduras is more aggressive, we will have to redesign our campaign for combatting the disease," said Enrique Zelaya, a top Health Ministry official.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
J
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:copyrightInfo
full text
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:owner
PIP
pubmed:pagination
17
pubmed:dateRevised
2002-10-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
U.S. experts warn of Honduras AIDS risk to women. International.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article