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In reply to the discussion: Switzerland to recognise homeopathy as legitimate medicine [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)relevant to whether you are susceptible to contracting the disease or developing symptoms later. There are plenty of viruses and bacteria that our bodies, with a healthy immune system, fight off day in and day out without breaking a sweat, HIV is NOT one of them. While a small minority of people have been able to carry the disease without showing symptoms, such as Magic Johnson, we are still not clear as to why.
In fact, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going by memory here, but one of the ways that HIV is so effective when transmitted and able to invade T-cells is that it fools the immune system into not seeing it at all. It also is persistent in that it hides in those cells even when patients take the most powerful antivirals available.