Word: weiss
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...Your article mentions a girl who was assaulted, then consumed with guilt. Where was the boy's purity ball? Why was he not raised to treat women respectfully? If a daughter can promise purity in the presence of her father, why can't a son? Lily Weiss, Lawrence, New York...
Your article mentions a girl who was assaulted, then consumed with guilt. Why was her attacker not raised to treat women respectfully? If a daughter can promise purity in Dad's presence, why can't a son? Lily Weiss, LAWRENCE...
...turned out that among a select cohort of American military personnel who had been followed over decades, the roughly 1,200 carriers of the trait, all of whom were African-American, were 40% more likely after adjustments to be infected with HIV than noncarriers. From that sample, Weiss and his colleagues extrapolated the infection risk attributable to the gene variant in Africa, where a 40% increased susceptibility to infection translates to about 11% of all infections...
Interestingly, among the servicemen who were infected with HIV, those who carried the gene variant lived on average two years longer than noncarriers. "We still can't say exactly why," Weiss says. And though the effect of this gene variant, if confirmed, could help explain a huge number of HIV infections, it still cannot come close to explaining the AIDS burden of Africa. Nearly 70% of all HIV-positive people in the world live in sub-Saharan Africa, and prevalence rates in adults in some African countries top 20%. What's more, the gene variant is most common in West...
When asked whether his new findings, if replicated, may help guide current policy, Weiss says, "The straight answer is no. It doesn't really help us think about a vaccine." He adds, "It also doesn't help in other ideas about prevention." Eventually, however, researchers hope to learn how the gene variant slows progression of the AIDS, which may inspire new treatments...