Catching Criminals of HIV Crimes

HIV is a deadly disease without a cure.  Someone that is HIV positive can become a great threat.  With there being no obvious signs of HIV, it is very easy for it to be passed on.  Infecting someone with HIV when the infected knows and the receiver doesn't, can be considered assault with deadly weapon-HIV.  In the article that I read,  "Perpetrators of HIV crimes uncovered through “evolutionary forensics”", the author discusses how scientists can now determine who infected whom. This means that there is now a way to have "evolutionary forensic" evidence to solve a case.  This is similar to DNA testing but much more complicated due to the fact that the HIV virus mutates making more virions.  This article was really interesting to me because it is talking about something that is very prevalent in our world.  It also shows science being applied to a real life situation.  One thing that drew me to this article was how similar it was to what we had learned about DNA testing.  I myself have never had jury duty but from what I know about it, it does not sound fun. One of the thing that I think would be the worst is the fact that your vote could change someones life completely.  The DNA testing and HIV testing provides hard evidence to support or contradict a case.  This evidence reduces the risk of sending an innocent person to jail.