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Apologies, I know nothing about this at all, but why is it more surprising for HIV than other viral diseases that do have successful cures (like hepatitis C)?
by NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
Apologies, I know nothing about this at all, but why is it more surprising for HIV than other viral diseases that do have successful cures (like hepatitis C)?
- notahacker 4y agoIn simple terms, rather than always using a cell it takes over to make as many copies of itself as possible which then circulate and get dealt with by the (possibly boosted) immune system, HIV can hide itself in human DNA and let the normal human cell division process create a reservoir of apparently normal human cells which can produce copies of the virus in future
- bboygravity 4y agoTLDR: HIV edits your genome to add itself into it.
- Snoozus 4y agoIt's called a retrovirus. There is a handful of them dangerous to humans.