Super HIV Bug Confirmed.

Well, I'm not suprised. Given the right environment, the HIV virus will mutate to a point where it becomes resistant to almost every class of HIV drug and apparently able to wreck the immune system with unprecedented speed. Not years but months.

But they also say the new virus is exceptional. Normally, drug-resistant strains are less virulent -- they gain their resistance at the cost of their ability to replicate. In this case, though, the agent -- but in laboratory conditions -- replicated as easily as non-resistant types.

"This case serves a reminder that HIV remains a frighteningly versatile foe, one that can mutate to escape immune attack or to acquire drug resistance with surprising speed," The Lancet said in an editorial.

Markowitz's team stress it remains unclear how widespread 3-DCR virus is, how easily it can be transmitted, and whether some people may be genetically more vulnerable to it others.

Is this what they want? Have their cake thinking there would not be any consequences? It's time they take their heads out of the sand and realize that multiple sex partners or unprotected sex is never 100% guaranteed risk-free. In this day and age, it's courting disaster.

Now, the next question is, will Bug Chasers go after the big one? Paranoia reigns.