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Q. HIV - does it infect specific Blood Types? A friend of mine joined the army and they took him to an experiment and infected him with HIV. But he was not infected- he said because he has a certain blood type. Is this true?

A. I find it hard to believe the army infected any one with HIV. But that's a different story. Blood types differ from one another by their red blood cells proteins. HIV infects white blood cells .there is no connection between blood type and a cure for HIV. If there was- you’ve heard about it by now…

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No references found			Sequences of the hexon gene hypervariable regions 1-6 that provide type specificity (6) showed a single nonsynonymous base substitution (C [right arrow] T; Thr [right arrow] Ile) at nucleotide position 107 of the HAdV-40 prototype strain Dugan (GenBank accession no. Systemic infection with enteric adenovirus in immunocompetent child ... by Khetsuriani, Nino; Tong, Suxiang; Lu, Xiaoyan; Reed, Shannon; Erdman, Dean; Campbell, Angela; Supawa / Emerging Infectious Diseases Organ, tissue and cell type specificity are extremely important in human and other mammalian gene expression analysis," said Tatiana Nikolskaya, chief scientific officer and founder of GeneGo. Applied Biosystems and GeneGo Collaborate to Advance Understanding of ... by Business Wire			Type C Personality Type D Personality type E personality type I acrocephalosyndactyly type I AV block Type I diabetes Type I error type I familial hyperlipoproteinemia type I hyperlipidemia type I hypersensitivity type I mucopolysaccharidosis type II acrocephalosyndactyly type II AV block Type II diabetes Type II error type II familial hyperlipoproteinemia type II hypersensitivity type II mucopolysaccharidosis type III acrocephalosyndactyly type III familial hyperlipoproteinemia type III mucopolysaccharidosis type IS mucopolysaccharidosis type IV familial hyperlipoproteinemia type IV hypersensitivity type IV mucopolysaccharidosis type specificity Type T Personality Type T-Negative Type T-Positive Mental Type T-Positive Physical type V acrocephalosyndactyly type V familial hyperlipoproteinemia type V mucopolysaccharidosis type VI mucopolysaccharidosis type VII mucopolysaccharidosis type-1 movement type-2 movement type-A pain type-B pain type-C pain type-I somatic dysfunction type-II somatic dysfunction typewriter ribbon as a marking medium typhl(o)- typhl- typhlectasis typhlectomy typhlenteritis typhlitis typhlo- Typhlocoelium			Type of US DOD SIGINT Satellite Type of writing Type One Diabetes Assistance and Enlightenment type out type out type over Type Pack Type Physical Inventory Code Type physicalism Type physicalism Type polymorphism Type Rating Examiner Type Rating Instructor Type Rating Training Organization Type Requisition Code type scaler type scheme Type section Type setting Type setting type site type sites type size type slug Type Something Long type species type species type species type species Type Specific Driver type specificity type specimen type specimens Type Storage Code type style Type system type T personality Type T-Negative Type T-Positive Mental Type T-Positive Physical Type three secretion system Type three secretion system Type three secretion system Type three secretion system Type To Learn Type To You Later Type Training Type Training in Port Type Transaction Phrase Code type unit type unit characteristics file Type Unit Characteristics Report type unit data file type unit data file Type Unit Equipment Data File Type Unit Equipment Detail Type Unit Equipment Detail File Type Unit Equipment Detail Report Type Unit Report

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