In 2001, two groups of scientists reported that people with HIV are much less likely to die from AIDS if they’re concurrently infected with a harmless virus called GBV-C (SN: 10/6/01, p. 216: For a change, infection stymies HIV). One of the research groups has now uncovered a mechanism by which this protection might be conferred.
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