"Fresh air can seriously damage your health". A most unlikely Government Health warning but, for the patient with Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease Syndrome, AIDS, air-borne infection presents a constant threat of pneumonia and death. Nearly all will die of diseases caused by microbes that are everywhere in the environment, and harmless to the normal, healthy individual. It could almost be said that air, water and food carry death to anyone infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, …showed first 75 words of 1390 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1390 total…Because the resistant individuals are in good health and do not seem to require the co-address protein CCR-5 for their immune system to work effectively these exciting findings offer the possibility of developing new drugs which might knock out the co-address, and at the same time leave the immune system intact. Or will the ease and speed with which HIV can alter its coat and acquire drug resistance defeat all attempts at therapy? Hopefully, not!