if HIV originally came from chimps who got it from eating a smaller monkey and it’s not transmitted by air etc like the cold. Why are we having such a hard time eradicating it in human hosts?
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With current medication cocktails, the levels of HIV in a human can be reduced to undetectable levels. The problem is, even at those levels, there is no way to really kill it out of your system. if you stop taking the antiretroviral drugs they will likely start replicating and become detectable again.
Like many diseases, there may come a time when we can prevent people from getting it with some form of vaccine, but it is unlikely it can be completely eliminated from someone that has it.
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