What makes HIV so incredibly dangerous is that it operates on a completely different level in terms of genetic variability. The genetic code of HIV is extremely prone to copying errors—on average, every time the virus makes a copy of itself it makes an error. Which means even in a single cell there are numerous different variants of HIV. This has three possible outcomes: 1. HIV destroys itself because it mutates in a way that disables itself or it becomes less effective. 2. The mutation does not help or harm and nothing changes. 3. The virus becomes better at avoiding the defenses of the
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