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If you don't have any post-recovery immunity, then how do you ever recover to begin with?
by rootusrootus 7y ago
If you don't have any post-recovery immunity, then how do you ever recover to begin with?
- dekhn 7y agoimmunity prevents you from being infected, not from eliminating the virus. People who are cured of AIDS by eliminating HIV aren't then immune.
- rootusrootus 7y agoHIV is a bit of a special case to begin with, since it's attacking the very immune system that would try to kill it. But is anyone clearing the virus on their own? I thought it required extensive retroviral therapy, and even then it isn't actually cleared? Admittedly, I don't really keep up on the status of HIV, maybe something has changed.
- dekhn 7y agoA very small number of people have natural immunity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV I am not sure if anybody gets infected, then clears the virus on their own.