per future research is the fact that the chimpanzees are being hunted nearly to extinction, which means hunters may be acquiring different strains of the virus, and a living database of AIDS information may become lost to researchers.
The oldest known case of HIV-1 infection was reported in a sailor from Manchester who died of an AIDS illness in 1959, however the authenticity of this case has not been confirmed (Zhu et al, 594-594). This group published a report in Nature in 1998 on an HIV-1 sequence from an African plasma sample from 1959 for which multiple phylogenetic sequence analyses authenticated it as the oldest known HIV-1 infection, and placed its viral sequence near the ancestral node of subtypes B and D in the major gene, indicating that these HIV-1 subtypes and perhaps all new group viruses may have evolved from a single introduction into the African population not long before 1959.
Many treatments are now available for AIDS patients. Combination antiretroviral therapy with protease inhibitors has provided marked survival benefits for
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