Question

According to the article, researchers began to study the DNA of descendants of the Eyam villagers who survived the plague.

This has helped scientists make strides in the fight against which other disease?

HIV and AIDS
influenza
heart disease
malaria

Answer 1

HIV and AIDS

Step-by-step explanation:

A person who carries two copies of the mutation delta 32 is immune to contracting HIV or AIDS. Scientists believe that this same mutation have saved Europeans from contracting the plague.

Answer 2

HIV and AIDS

Step-by-step explanation:

The researchers who studied the DNA of the Eyam Villagers made giant strides in discovering something very different in their DNA which was not found in the people that died during the plaque that ravaged the Eyam village in the 1660s.

The Eyam village was an Anglo-Saxon village were more than 260 out of 350 people died from a strange illness that plagued the village. the survivors of the plaque had a unique gene in their DNA that protected them from contacting deadly Viral disease like HIV. this discovery have helped scientists to carryout test on this people in search of a cure for the viral disease called HIV