Hiv and lung cancer

Share Mr Liddle said leukaemia caused by the virus was in some cases 'rapidly fatal'. The disease, which has been found in Japan, South America and Africa, is on the rise in Australia, with Aboriginal communities most at risk.

Infectious diseases expert Dr Lloyd Einsiedel said the disease was now spreading into other areas across Australia including Adelaide and Perth.

For people with 'a lot of the virus' in their blood, Dr Einsiedel said it was 'the most potent carcinogenic virus that we know of'. Dr Einsiedel said infected people's risk of disease differed depending on how much of the virus was found in their blood.

Infectious diseases expert Dr Lloyd Einsiedel said the disease hiv and lung cancer now spreading into other areas across Australia including Adelaide and Perth Despite the severity of the disease, and its prominence in Australia's indigenous hiv and lung cancer Hidden Valley, Alice Springs picturedDr Einsiedel said HTLV-1 had been neglected Despite the severity of the disease, and its prominence in Australia's indigenous communities, Dr Einsiedel said HTLV-1 had been neglected.

Dr Liddle agreed saying: 'In remote Australia, it's so out of sight out of mind with a lot of hiv and lung cancer, health is just one of those things'.