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. 2005 Mar 2:2:14.
doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-2-14.

New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?

Stephen M Smith  1
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New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?

Stephen M Smith. Retrovirology. .

Abstract

On February 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that a city resident had recently been infected with a multi-drug resistant form of HIV and rapidly progressed to AIDS. The Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, called for increased vigilance against this new strain. Is this situation an emerging crisis or simply an unusual case report of rapid HIV progression?

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