What's new about AIDS?

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  • Aileen Gray

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15173/nexus.v11i1.139

Abstract

AIDS is often portrayed by the media as an unusual virus. This paper places the AIDS virus in a number of different contexts to demonstrate that the AIDS pandemic is not a unique or a non·repeatable occurrence. Viral characteristics in general, and those of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in particular, are examined, as are the concepts of viral evolution, human·virus interactions and host-parasite relationships.

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Published

1993-01-01

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