THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM
AIDS
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Question
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Why is treating AIDS so difficult?
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The HIV virus often mutates
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we don’t know what causes AIDS
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AIDS is undetectable
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There are not medicines available to treat AIDS
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The reason why it is so difficult to cure HIV is that once HIV infects a person’s body, it integrates into the host genome of several cell types. Those cells then hide in any of the lymphoid tissue, such as the lymph nodes, the liver and the spleen.
Detailed explanation-2: -HIV is so difficult to cure because the virus persists inside stable reservoirs that cannot be detected by the immune system.
Detailed explanation-3: -It has been known for a long time that HIV-1 mutates rapidly, and does so to escape the pressure from either host immunity (both cellular and humoral) and/or antiretroviral drug treatment.
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