Nairobi University's Faculty of Medicine

TorgoX on 2003-11-24T06:11:41

Dear Log,

«...a group of 50 prostitutes from Majengo who have demonstrated a miraculous resistance to an illness [AIDS] that has decimated their clients and killed off 95 per cent of the female competition. Studied by researchers from the University of Nairobi and the University of Oxford, they were all found to have an inordinate quantity of white blood cells perfectly honed to kill HIV-infected cells. The information obtained from the women has been converted in laboratories at Nairobi University's Faculty of Medicine into a trial vaccine. The first tests on humans began this year. No other project in the world is more advanced or offers more hope that the holy grail, a lasting solution to Aids, may be found.»

--"Hope for Aids cure as prostitutes defy virus in the slums"


Truth stranger than fiction

ziggy on 2003-12-10T17:16:40

This is pretty much exactly the plot of Norman Spinrad's Journals of the Plague Years. The only difference is that the super-immunity spontaneously emerged in Nairobi, not in San Francisco, and we can actually refer to AIDS by name and not eliptically as «the virus».