Essay Archive - The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
The topic of this paper is the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV,
and whether or not mutations undergone by the virus allow it to survive in
the immune system. The cost of treating all persons with AIDS in 1993 in
the United States was $7.8 billion, and it is estimated that 20,000 new
cases of AIDS are reported every 3 months to the CDC. This question
dealing with how HIV survives in the immune system is of critical
importance, not only in the search for a cure for the virus and its
inevitable syndrome, AIDS (Acquired Immunodefic....
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