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Hold up w/ HIV comment
May 21, 2009 by Anonymous, 24 weeks 3 days ago
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Just on the HIV comment... I know someone that is a Harvard grad that did research for a couple years no not on HIV. I asked her about it and she said because the virus mutates all the time, it will be hard to find a cure. Think of it as the flu. We have all these vaccinations but people still get it when they take the vaccination. The flu vaccination is just an educated guess as to what flu will come out that year. I have personally had the flu after getting the vaccination. Herpes should be easyer to cure though, it may be dormant, but it does not mutate like HIV. Hope I would clear that up for you. Oh and a little comment on statistics lol. I was worried about herpes and all, think of it this way... 100% of people have herpes!!! So its 60%-80% have HSV-1... 20% have HSV-2. That is 80%-100%... Chicken pox, shingles/ zoster gets the rest of us lol. Its everywhere, everyone has it...