High HIV-2 prevalence reported in Bombay. (India)

India

Researchers investigating the explosive spread of HIV in Bombay, India, have discovered a high prevalence of HIV-2 infection.

The research team of Helga Rubsamen-Waigmann, Ursula Dietrich, A. Pfutzner and colleagues of Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt, Germany, reported at the VII International Conference on AIDS that they had found evidence of HIV-2 infection in Bombay. But more recent findings by this team confirm their most dire predictions.

Their most recent findings, first reported in a poster presentation at the VIII International Conference on AIDS and described in detail in an article in the October 1992 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), revealed …