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FALSE HEADLINE: This article does not state that certain blood types can protect against HIV infection
An article published by online content aggregator Opera News claiming that people who have a particular blood type cannot contract HIV/AIDS has a FALSE HEADLINE.
The article was reshared from olexhome.info, but most of its content has been copied from another post published in 2019 on verywellhealth.com — a peer-reviewed online resource for medical information.
The author, Elizabeth Boskey, PhD, who is a social worker and expert writer in the field of sexually transmitted diseases, includes none of the assertions made by the headlines of the article on Opera News and olexhome.info.
Rather, Dr Boskey tries to make sense of the relationship between genetics and HIV resistance. She bases her argument on a study carried out by Swedish researchers in 2009, which revealed a new genetic mutation that may confer some level of resistance to HIV.
