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A weakening virus?
Advocate, The, Dec 6, 2005
On World AIDS Day, December 1, advocates once again remember those lost. This year, however, researchers in Belgium are predicting an end to the losing. Writing in the October 15 edition of the journal AIDS, a team of Belgian scientists said that as the AIDS virus mutates to thwart the body's immune system, it is slowly losing its ability to kill. Such viral weakening could mean an end to HIV-related deaths within 50 to 60 years, they said.
Other AIDS experts, however, cautioned that HIV could remain virulent for hundreds of years. Viral weakening is "a very slow process," warned Marco Vitoria, an AIDS expert at the World Health Organization, "to be measured not in years but in generations."
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