New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by Fomite on Friday September 22, 2017 @06:10PM (#15316332)

Note that not all of those genomes continue to persist. People often have a single dominant strain, but what exactly that strain is varies wildly over time.

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Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by nonbel on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:50PM (#15317330)

I'm saying that a person must be getting exposed to millions or billions of variants, and only one leads to an infection. That is very surprising to me given my understanding of viruses.

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