New Knee Ligament Found (Again)

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Uh, there was a paper published in Nature last week that said not all dormant HIV can reactivate. Is that what you are talking about or is it something else? Not sure what you are talking about when you say it doesn't go dormant (actually latent is a better term).

In the mid 80s there was a belief that patients took a long time to display clinical signs of AIDS because HIV entered a latent period after primary infection. David Ho (the same guy who pioneered HAART and won Time's Man of the Year) ultimately found that the immune system puts up a hell of a fight for years upon years, and it is only after nearly a decade (in most individuals) that the constant assault begins to exhaust its defenses.

That was part of the reason behind the initial theraputic push called "hit it hard, hit it early."