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This is fantastic, but I can only imagine that 91% will become 9.1% within a decade, as the unaffected strains become dominant (just like superbugs).
by alanh 16y ago
This is fantastic, but I can only imagine that 91% will become 9.1% within a decade, as the unaffected strains become dominant (just like superbugs).
- someone_here 16y agoBut only 10% of the current number of people infected will be infected by that point.
- hugh3 16y agoBut how many AIDS patients have multiple strains?
- FiReaNG3L 16y agoAll of them
- FiReaNG3L 16y agoI love how that got down voted and the general amount of HIV fud in this thread - I actually do HIV research, I would know. Most HIV people get infected by one strain, but it mutates so rapidly that in a single individual, multiple strains co exist at different levels (a major one and many, many lower levels ones).
- shasta 16y agoI doubt that infection with one strain of HIV is preventing infection with another strain, except to the extent that some of the people engaging in the most risky behavior are getting "taken out of the system" by AIDS. Something like this could lead to exponential decline among certain subnetworks of society.
- MikeCapone 16y agoMaybe, but how far forward will biotech have moved in 10 years? Buying time might be enough, in this case.