Here is more 'origin of the virus' research to show that Taiwan's virus came from China. Now we know that the US virus came from Haiti, Yunnan's from Myanmar, and Taiwan's from Xinjiang. We can all sleep better at night.
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Chronology of the HIV-1 CRF07_BC expansion in East Asia.
AIDS. 2008 Jan 2;22(1):156-8.
Tee KK, Pybus OG, Liao H, Uenishi R, Hase S, Kamarulzaman A, Li XJ, Takebe
Y.
Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Epidemiology, AIDS Research Center,
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
The HIV-1 epidemic among injecting drug users (IDU) in Taiwan is caused
primarily by CRF07_BC infections. Evolutionary analyses, which utilize
outgroup reference strains from northwestern China (Xinjiang), reveal that
CRF07_BC was introduced into southern Taiwan in 1998-2001 and spread to
central-northern Taiwan in 2001-2003, causing the largest HIV/AIDS
epidemic in Taiwan. The separate introduction of CRF07_BC into Xinjiang
occurred in 1992-1995. This study illustrates the temporal dynamics of
CRF07_BC spread among IDU across east Asia.
