WASHINGTON - Scientists think they have discovered how some people fight off the virus that causes AIDS, a finding they say could lead to a new approach to treatment as well as explain why some infected people don t get the fatal disease. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, said Thursday that th
BOSTON - Another case of a hospital worker being infected with the AIDS virus by an accidental needle jab has been reported by French doctors. The infection occurred in a nurse, who received a superficial needle-prick injury in her finger when she recapped a needle that had been used to withdraw fluid from an AIDS pati
An international committee of scientists, in a letter to be published Thursday and Friday in two leading journals, is proposing that the AIDS virus be called by a new name: human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. The proposed name, to be published in the journals Nature and Science, holds little significance for the publ
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