Commentary
New York City HIV superbug: fear or fear not?
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Correspondence: Stephen M Smith ssmith1824@aol.com
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Saint Michael's Medical Center, New Jersey, USA
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The New Jersey Medical School, Newark New Jersey 07102, USA
Retrovirology 2005, 2:14 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-2-14
Published: 2 March 2005Abstract
On February 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that a city resident had recently been infected with a multi-drug resistant form of HIV and rapidly progressed to AIDS. The Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, called for increased vigilance against this new strain. Is this situation an emerging crisis or simply an unusual case report of rapid HIV progression?