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Excellent news. HIV is nasty stuff. It acts sort of like an acquired genetic disorder.

It's a retrovirus, so it makes two copies of itself and replaces cellular DNA. Two RNA welded together make up DNA, so it more or less gives you the equivalent of a genetic disorder.





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