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...Asia. HIV has still not evolved in the industrialized world into a form that is easily transmitted by heterosexual activity. But it probably will, given the virus' proven ability to mutate. "Over time, in the U.S., more and more strains will adapt to become more efficient at heterosexual transmission," Essex says. "So far, there haven't been a critical number of people infected heterosexually. As that happens, you will get adaptation of the virus for transmission in that route. The heterosexual epidemic in the U.S. will expand...
...switch? "We lost three elections," said Jack Cunningham, Labour's campaign coordinator. "That is good enough reason to change policy." Many voters were left doubting Labour's sincerity. "Labour jettisoned its ideological baggage without acquiring any new ideas distinctively its own," says Anthony King, a professor of government at Essex University. "Most people found it hard to say what they stand...
...experiences there led him to clinical AIDS care, and eventually to the Harvard lab of Max E. Essex, Lasker professor of health sciences at the School of Public Health and chair of the AIDS Institute. There, Marlink and Essex began researching a new strain of HIV known as HIV-II, which also causes AIDS-like symptoms...
...Essex says that Marlink's research has yielded some "very exciting results," among them that HIV-II is less virulent than HIV-I. Researchers have demonstrated that HIV-II causes AIDS at ten percent the rate...
Marlink's work on HIV-II has ranged from the analysis of the causes of the disease to the effects of the disease on immune system responses. This broad base, Essex says, makes Marlink just the person to lead the Institute...