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Unusually high number of people naturally controlling HIV found in the Congo


Thousands of people in the Congo and Cameroon might be elite controllers of HIV, opening up a path to potential new cures and vaccines for the infectious disease. — AFP

PETALING JAYA: An unexpectedly high number of people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been discovered to be "elite controllers" of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).

This means that their immune system has been able to naturally suppress their HIV infection to the extent that the virus is not detectable in their bloodstream.

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