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People don’t survive HIV and it mutates incredibly quickly.
by hilbertseries 7y ago
People don’t survive HIV and it mutates incredibly quickly.
- mongol 7y agoIs it the mutation rate that makes it challenging? Or something else, line how it defeats the immune system?
- Gibbon1 7y agoYeah HIV mutates extremely quickly. Over time people develope multiple strains circulating. Directly targets immune cells. Also I believe it tends to stitch itself into cells DNA and remain latent indeterminate amounts of time.
- hilbertseries 7y agoMutation rate combined with the fact that no one has ever recovered from aids. Vaccines typically “teach” the body how to fend off a virus, but we’ve never seen someone do that once infected.