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U-of-I finds link that helps AIDS patients

March 4, 2004 By admin

Research done in part at the University of Iowa finds AIDS patients who are also infected with an obscure and apparently harmless virus called G-B-V-C live significantly longer than patients who aren’t infected. Dr. Jack Stapleton, a U-of-I internal medicine professor and director of the Center for Viral Pathogenesis, says G-B-V-C is similar to hepatitis. Dr. Stapleton says the virus is quite common and was discovered in 1995. It’s a close genetic relative to hepatitis-C, but it does -not- cause hepatitis. Many people around the world carry the virus, which appears to have little effect on anyone — other than AIDS patients. Stapleton says AIDS patients who don’t carry G-B-V-C may soon be injected with it intentionally to prolong their lives.He says that’s already being done every day through transfusions as about two-percent of everyone who gives blood is also passing along the G-B-V-C virus. Stapleton says the virus clearly helps people who are HIV-positive to live longer. He says “You’re almost three times more likely to die if you don’t have this virus five years after you’re infected with H-I-V, compared to if you do have this virus and you’re H-I-V (positive).” The findings are being published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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