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HIV, PEP, and irradication. What we'll never know.
#25661 - 12/17/01 09:01 PM
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The following is just a theory, or a topic for discussion.
Is it possible for a person to get the HIV virus in their body, but then somehow their body kills off the virus and they stay HIV negative? We'll never really know, because the virus would have to be irradicated before it ever reached measurable levels, so there is no test to prove whether this happens or not.
This is basically the same thing that happens when they give someone PEP treatment after an occupational exposure. The idea is to kill off the virus before it takes hold of their body. But we can never really know if it works, because the tests we have only show if a person has HIV or not. There is no test that shows whether hiv ever really got into someone's body, and was then killed off.
For all we know, HIV might get irradicated by the body in some cases. Imagine one single little virus takes hold of one CD4 cell, but it fails to multiply, or the CD4 dies off before it buds new viruses. In theory, it seems possible, but who knows if it ever happens in real life?
We may never know!
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