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Right. For resistance to evolve, some part of the treated population must survive. (You can't evolve resistance to atomic weapons dropped on your head.) Is PReP
by quotemstr 7y ago
Right. For resistance to evolve, some part of the treated population must survive. (You can't evolve resistance to atomic weapons dropped on your head.) Is PReP really effective enough to ensure that there are no survivors? Sure, maybe it is, used correctly at therapeutic doses.
What if it becomes common enough to get into the water at much lower doses? What if people split pills to reduce costs? ISTM that there are many potential avenues for evolving resistance.
- ShlomoS 7y ago>Is PReP really effective enough to ensure that there are no survivors? No, the first bug chaser to successfully contract HIV while on it was quite proud of his achievement. Clearly the virus can survive.
- ls612 7y agoHIV is sexually transmitted. It can’t survive in the water or the air. So the presence of anti HIV drugs in the environment shouldn’t have an impact.