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by j9461701 2972 days ago
Ha, my thoughts were similar to yours but in the opposite direction: With such complicated machinery being involved in every part of micro biology, how can humans ever hope to cure anything? Everything down there is so complex, fast and intricate and we're stuck up here able to interact with it only in the most brute force and imprecise ways.
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I think the general strategy to fight HIV is to try to disrupt one or two key events of the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS
Yeah, that's what I would imagine, it is a chain of events so you could disrupt the process breaking one step, which one? I can't tell. But I know for sure that we are smarter than those micro organisms trying to do their thing :)