Being Recharged

[viking8x6]

On 6/18/2022 at 9:10 PM, TotalTop said:

No it is not BS, a myth, or rare. Getting other strains of HIV or reinfected with the same original strain causes medication failure, and the HIV patient progresses to AIDS much faster.

You've made a lot of assertions here, and not all of them are equally true. I'm going to discuss them separately to avoid people being misled:

No it is not BS, a myth, or rare. True. Research (see below) shows superinfection rates of 0-7% worldwide.

Getting other strains of HIV ... causes medication failure, Partly true. It can cause medication failure *only if* the new strain is resistant to the medications the infected person is taking. It certainly does not inevitably do so.

...or reinfected with the same original strain... Meaningless. You literally cannot get "reinfected" with a virus you are already actively infected with. Your body is already full of that virus.

...and the HIV patient progresses to AIDS much faster. Sometimes true. This is true *only if* the new strain is "more fit" than the one the infected person already has. Sometimes that is true, sometimes it is not.

All of the facts I'm stating above are put forth in a 2013 research paper in Lancet Infectious Diseases (a reputable scientific journal). Here's the link: [think before following links] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752600/ The Pathogenesis section is of particular interest.

Here's a link to the CDC page on HIV Superinfection (the technical term for this discussion topic): [think before following links] https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/hiv-transmission/hiv-superinfection.html