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Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You

This Podcast Will Kill You

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HIV 101 - HIV-1 and HIV-2

HIV is spread via extremely close contact with a few bodily fluids. HIV-1 and HIV-1 will HIV make 100 billion copies of itself every day. And because it's an RNA virus and a retrovirus at that, it has a super high mutation rate. So it's really hard for our immune system to target and it mutates a lot faster than our drug development can keep up with.

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