HIV Is Evolving To Evade Human Immune Responses

HIV is evolving rapidly to escape the human immune system, scientists have shown. The findings demonstrate the challenge involved in developing a vaccine for HIV that keeps pace with the changing nature of the virus. The study better describes HIV's ability to adapt by spelling out at least 14 different "escape mutations" that help keep the virus alive after it interacts genetically with immunity molecules that normally attack HIV.

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