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- <text id=93TT1356>
- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: HIV Ambush
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- HIV Ambush
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Studies show the AIDS virus hides out in lymph nodes before
- it attacks
- </p>
- <p> Because half of all people infected with HIV live for 10
- years, showing very few viruses in their blood before developing
- AIDS, conventional wisdom held that the deadly invaders were
- dormant much of that time. Not so, say two studies in Nature. The
- intruding virus immediately produces millions of copies that lie
- waiting in lymph nodes, pea-size organs found throughout the
- body. Once key parts of the immune system are destroyed, this
- reservoir of viruses spills over into the blood. Such a massive
- behind-the-scenes attack may make it impossible to rid the body
- of the viruses. The researchers note that these findings
- underscore once again the importance of prevention in fighting
- the spread of AIDS.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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