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From: liz@ai.mit.edu (Liz A. Highleyman)
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Subject: Time to illness
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I was under the impression that the time between infection with HIV and
the development of illness was somewhere in the area of 5 years.  Yet
I have also heard that people who received transfusions of infected
blood (early in the epidemic) were known to get sick within a few months.
How can this be?  Is it taking longer and longer for people to develop
OIs?  Does this indicate that HIV is perhaps becoming less virulent?

-Liz