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Is it the mutation rate that makes it challenging? Or something else, line how it defeats the immune system?
by mongol 7y ago
Is 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.