AIDS, n.Trivia

An alligator’s immune system can fight HIV.

Diarrhea killed roughly as many people as HIV and AIDS in 2012

Patient zero of the AIDS virus lived in Cameroon and contracted the disease around 1908, after hunting a chimp and being infected with SIV (Simian immunodeficiency Virus)

HIV is reported to have been cured in two patients both of whom benefited from bone marrow transplant procedures that were actually intended for treating cancer, not HIV

1% of Caucasians have a genetic defect that makes them completely immune to HIV

Human genome is 3.3Gb in size. HIV virus is only 9.7kb.

Isaac Asimov died from complications of HIV. In 1983 got HIV from a blood transfusion during heart surgery.

The plagues of the Middle Ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV.