Concerns over technology used to exonerate AIDS ‘Patient Zero’

Mark Gilbert, a professor at UBC’s school of the population and public health, was interviewed by Daily Xtra for an article on a study that used genome tracking to trace the entry of HIV into North America.

Scientists are able to trace different strains of the virus, and will ideally be able to track the details of how the virus spread.

“It may help us to identify communities or networks to focus on in terms of prevention measures,” Gilbert said.