Biology 1001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mutation Rate, Hiv, Thymidine
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Aids was discovered over 30 years ago. Hiv is everywhere, but it is more in africa, and less in the more developed worlds. Deaths due to deaths is decrease now, because of new drugs. Group on: still no cure or vaccine for hiv/aids. One of the problems are the hiv are rapidly evolving, so that the drug might not work later, multiple strains of virus, hard to cure, to find a drug to treat them. Conspiracy theories (more drugs, more money, don"t want to cure it) Human immune system is not up to par with hiv virus, we cannot defend against them right now, did not evolve as fast as the hiv virus. Tree of life: bacteria, archae, eukarya. Anti-viral therapy often has serious side effects because the viruses are using the host"s cells so its hard to find a drug that will kill the virus without harming the host cells.
