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Mon Oct 1, 2012, 08:23 AM Oct 2012

HIV 'made' new deadly Salmonella - study

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19727630



An epidemic of a deadly strain of Salmonella has swept across the whole of Africa by "taking advantage" of the spread of HIV, according to an international team of researchers.

Their study, published in Nature Genetics, is the first to identify the separate cases as a single epidemic.

One in four people in Africa infected with the strain died.

It is thought to be the first time a single strain of an infection has spread so widely in the wake of HIV.
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