OXFORD, United Kingdom (StudyFinds.org) – A more aggressive HIV strain that can cause patients to develop AIDS twice as fast has been discovered in the Netherlands. Stay on top of breaking news and ...

“Individuals with the VB variant had a viral load (the level of the virus in the blood) between 3.5 and 5.5 times higher,” the Big Data Institute researchers said. International collaborative research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (AFP via Getty Images) An “exceptionally” virulent variant of HIV has been detected in the Netherlands, where it has been ...

An international research team has identified a highly virulent and infectious strain of HIV that likely began circulating in the Netherlands in the 1990s and has infected more than 100 people. Left ...

Though the VB variant seems to be more transmissible and harmful, it can still be effectively treated and isn't spreading widely. Reading time 4 minutes Researchers in a new paper this week say that a ...

Researchers have discovered a highly virulent and more rapidly progressing strain of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS — but insist it is “no cause for alarm” because of modern treatments against the ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are reporting that a patient undergoing experimental therapy for HIV infection became superinfected with a second strain of the virus, which compromised his ...