Unusual HIV found in Myanmar truck driver

Chinese scientists have identified what they say is the most complex HIV ever discovered, in the blood of a long-distance truck driver from Myanmar.

Scientists from the Kunming Institute of Zoology sequenced genetic materials extracted from the driver's blood after he entered China from a border checkpoint in Yunnan province.

In the sample, all nine genes of the HIV had been reprogrammed in a more sophisticated way than the most complex HIV found to date.