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Super-AIDS
Rumors of super-AIDS have been circulating in the internet as a particularly resistant HIV virus form, which quickly leads to the outbreak of the disease. But what's right?
In 2005, a case was reported in New York by a 40-year-old homosexual who contracted AIDS after several hours of anal intercourse with several hundred men. Only a few months before he had already taken an HIV test, but turned out negative. Despite the unusual course of the disease, scientists denied that there are super-aids . The man consumed additional Metamphetamine (Crystal Meth), which should have additionally negatively influenced his immune system.
But now science confirms a new, especially aggressive HI virus form. Meanwhile, drugs can delay the onset of AIDS for a long time. But the new HIV viruses are much more aggressive. Multiple, unprotected sex with changing partners who are infected with different strains of viruses, the possibility that a patient independently captures two different variants of the pathogen, which can be reconstructed in the body to another new strain. These new viruses lead to the outbreak of the immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS within three years after the infection. Compared to normal viruses, which often develop into AIDS only after more than ten years, the patients get sick very quickly. Often, they hardly notice the infection before, making treatment difficult. Super AIDS is really there.
