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To: JOHN W. who wrote (1988)	10/2/1997 12:28:00 PM
From: Frank Gaertner	of 6136

Give a patient an antibiotic soon enough and long enough and the bugs die. The patient is cured. This will happen everytime, as long as the patient is not already infected with resistant bacteria. Maybe it will be the same with HIV. Give the patient a battery of PIs and drugs soon enough and long enough, and as long as the virus is not already resistant maybe the patient gets cured. If I understand things correctly, that possibility has not been ruled out. I know the virus is hard to reach when it's in the nervous system, but I've also heard that the PIs are making an impact in the CNS as well. The virus is very "smart", but I have to believe there must be a way to knock it out for good. It sounds to me like we might be getting close. My point is that the way to beat resistance is to wipe the invader out completely. If one can't do that, then I'd have to agree that the most likely outcome is that the virus will eventually acquire a resistant status. As an alternative I suppose the virus could mutate to a benign state, and then everybody, including the virus, could live happily ever after.

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