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Crocodile's Immune System Kills HIV

ASEville writes "In an ongoing effort to stop the spread of HIV, scientists in Australia have discovered that crocodiles can fight off HIV and kill the virus. This is a major boon to medicine because the crocodile serum can also fight things that are penicillin resistant such as staphylococcus aureus."

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  1. Re:HIV-AIDS by aaza · · Score: 1, Troll
    Let me see...
    Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
    Doesn't really indicate that it has one source, does it? It really just says that something has lowered your immune system. HIV is something that causes AIDS - it may not be the only thing. Also, AIDS is a syndrome, not a disease/virus/infection.

    This message was written without reading medical texts, and created using critical thinking and logic.

    It also agrees with the parent post, but not the GP.

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