New highly lethal HIV variant detected in Netherlands

TRIBUN-BALI.COM, LONDON – The world of health has been shocked again new virus discovery which is very deadly.

The virus is a new variant of HIV detected in the Netherlands.

In the journal Science, it is explained that an analysis of more than 100 HIV patients revealed that people infected with the new HIV variant known as VB had between 3.5 and 5.5 times higher levels of the virus in their blood.

This condition makes them more likely to transmit the virus.

Closed from Anadolu Agency, Saturday (5/2/2022), the findings are the result of a joint study by the Big Data Institute (BID) of Oxford University and the Dutch HIV Monitoring Foundation.

According to the journal, the VB variant also appears to cause decrease in immune cells.

This makes infected people potentially able to spread AIDS much faster than people infected with other variants of HIV.

However, the journal asserts that the new variant is treatable like normal HIV and can be detected through the same diagnostic tests used for other HIV variants.

A new variant of VB was detected through a project called Beehive, which aims to examine the relationship between HIV genetics and disease severity.

However, the study noted that only 109 people were known to be carriers of VB, 107 of whom were in the Netherlands.

The number of infected people is likely to increase.

Genetic analysis shows that the variant, which has been circulating since the late 1980s, started appearing in the Netherlands in the 1990s.

In the 2000s it was estimated that this variant had surpassed other HIV variants in the number of infections, although there was a decline after 2008, the journal notes.

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