One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
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It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.
What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.
They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.