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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by Fomite on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:56PM (#40743867)
HIV is notoriously unstable - RNA viruses don't contain any error checking during replication. Which is one reason HIV drugs, including those one, are almost always used in combination.
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by uiberto on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:52PM (#40744335)
coronaviruses are also RNA viruses, fwiw
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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by Horffupolde on Thursday June 20, 2024 @09:12PM (#40745197)
It’s a different kind. HIV is a retrovirus in that RNA is reverse transcribed into DNA. Coronavirus transcribes to RNA directly.
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