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Is aids still inevitable for these children?

• Retric 10y ago
  Biology is very rarely binary. Chances are some will and some will not before they die. The interesting question is what percentage can make it to say 50 without problems. It's possible similar crossovers to SID > AIDS may have happened many times in the past and due to slow travel and worse healthcare the outbreaks just died out. So, some percentage of the population might have relative immunity to similar diseases. It's also possible for some new mutation to show up that deals with AIDS over time. Or, they could be all dead before 30 without treatment it's hard to say.
  • gravypod 10y ago
    I have to say biology and other subjects are really strange coming from a CS background. A lot of stuff doesn't have a "single right answer" it seems.
    • dekhn 10y ago
      This is a wise observation and I didn't really appreciate it until I was about 40. I came from the hybrid route (hacker who started learning biology early) and I think most people who come to bio from physics or CS have a lot of learning to do about how biology is "different" from those fields. The underlying systems tend to be complex- far more complex than people who work on distributed systems or HEP are comfortable working with. They are ambiguous, highly multidimensional, there are complex feedback mechanisms and redundancies, etc.
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