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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A big issue is that it’s actually quite difficult to contract HIV in a single instance if the infected individual has had it for a while.
Jab yourself with an infected needle and the odds of getting it are less than 1%.
Oral and unprotected sex is even less than that.
So when people see that they think “oh it’s fine the risk is super low”.
But the individuals who are most at risk are not having sex once, they’re doing it many times and with multiple people. And those risks are not accounting for if you’re already compromised due to other STI’s or illnesses. So for many at risk people those probabilities of contraction are actually much higher.
When someone gets newly infected their infectiousness goes through the roof as the virus rapidly multiplies in the new host body to establish itself. So basically one person gets infected by blind chance then they have sex with other people and very quickly spread it to someone else, then those individuals very quickly spread it to more people and so on.
A lack of education and understanding of how the virus works, and the fact that it’s currently a lifelong condition, are why the virus doesnt eradicate itself.
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