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The Black Death and AIDS: CCR5-Delta32 in genetics and history.

QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians - 1 Aug 2006

Cohn S K, Weaver L T

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Black Death and AIDS are global pandemics that have captured the popular imagination, both attracting extravagant hypotheses to account for their origins and geographical distributions. Medical scientists have recently attempted to connect these two great pandemics. Some argue that the Black Death of 1346-52 was responsible for a genetic shift that conferred a degree of resistance to HIV 1 infection, that this...

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PMID: 16880184
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcl076

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