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Less lethal or more slowly lethal? HIV is no less lethal now than it was decades ago. It spreads without issues because it kills the host a few years after infe
by smnrchrds 5y ago
Less lethal or more slowly lethal? HIV is no less lethal now than it was decades ago. It spreads without issues because it kills the host a few years after infection instead of immediately. But HIV is as much of a death sentence today for people who do not seek or do no have access to treatments as it was 30 years ago.
- londons_explore 5y agoHIV is transmitted pretty slowly - it may take many years to be passed on from one person to the next. Therefore any decrease in lethality might take hundreds of years to happen. Widespread use of treatments would probably also stop the selection of less lethal strains.