Via Xinhua :
" The Health Bureau of Macao announced on Thursday that it has found a CRF12_BF subtype of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) that is slightly different from the one found in other regions.
The new subtype was detected after the Bureau and the medical experts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong cooperated to carry out molecular biologic analysis of the HIV virus samples found in Macao between 2006 and 2007.
The Bureau said that unprotected sex was the major way through which the HIV was transmitted in Macao before 2004, but the number of needle-sharing drug abusers contracting HIV increased dramatically in that year, and the virus they contracted was the new HIV subtype.
The HIV can be divided into two strains, the HIV-1 and HIV-2, and CRF12_BF is a recombinant subtype of the virus, which has been found in South America and parts of Europe.
Being an international city, a large number of visitors flock into the city every day, which makes it unavoidable for foreign virus to be brought into Macao, the Bureau said."
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