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A mutated strain of HIV is developing to AIDS faster than usual, a new study carried out by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver warns there is concrete evidence that the aggressive strain is developing faster than modern medicine can keep up with. According to Dr Alex Wong, an infectious disease physician with the Saskatchewan Health Authority, instead of it taking years, sometimes it just takes a month or a year.
Researchers at the university’s BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS compared 2,300 samples of Saskatchewan strains to other ones obtained across Canada and the United States. Unequivocally, they found higher levels of mutations that are resistant to the body’s immune responses in the Saskatchewan strains than in the others.
Up to 98 percent of the Saskatchewan strains had an immune-resistant component. But 80 percent of them had a particularly dangerous mutation that appeared to accelerate illness. This mutation was also present in the US and other parts of Canada, but in just 25 percent of the samples.
HIV is a virus that damages the cells in the immune system and weakens the ability to fight infections and disease. Without treatment, HIV can turn into AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), which is a syndrome not a virus. AIDS cannot be transmitted from one person to another. Those diagnosed with HIV need to be on medication for life to prevent it from turning into AIDS, which is fatal.