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HIV is unusually difficult to target and mutates very rapidly. It also has the ability to intertwine itself with DNA in CD4 lymphocytes and then start reproduci
by ch4s3 4y ago
HIV is unusually difficult to target and mutates very rapidly. It also has the ability to intertwine itself with DNA in CD4 lymphocytes and then start reproducing after a long period of dormancy[1]. Other viruses don't do that.
[1] https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/04/hiv-hides-in-immune-system-cells-resistant-to-killer-t-cells#:~:text=This%20is%20because%20HIV%20hides,and%20making%20a%20cure%20elusive https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/04/hiv-hides-in-imm....
- nickmyersdt 4y ago> Other viruses don't do that. ...yet
- ch4s3 4y agoI mean other retro-viruses exist, but but only HIV and HTLV-1/2 make humans sick.
- derefr 4y agoIs what HIV does with lymphocytes, similar to what herpes does with nerve cells?
- ch4s3 4y agoNo HSV works differently[1], it produces chemicals that surpasses the immune response. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus#Immune_evasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus#Immune_ev...
- foobiekr 4y agoDo we know other viruses don't do that or just don't know of other viruses that do?