A new subtype of HIV found after 50 years causing its first death.
Nearly after half a century after HIV killed its first victim, another sub-type of it is now found by research published on 6 November in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes journal. There is no new harm by this new type of Group M version of HIV-1, as it has already killed more than 32 million people worldwide.
The treatment of it is enough for this new subtype of Group M also. Abbott Laboratories, along with Missouri University in Kansas, conducted the research to confirm that the new HIV -1 subtype is only to prove the evolution of the virus to outsmart the treatments against it.
The first victim of HIV-1 and its evolution to Group M version
The new subtype Group M version of HIV -1 helps study the evolution of HIV. The major drawback of finding the treatment of HIV is its evolution in various versions. This new version, though, does not need any special treatment, will only confirm the many forms of HIV. It first killed Robert Rayford in St.Louis Hospital in Missouri in 1969. After 50 years, a new subtype of it is now found by the research.