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From: mwfolsom%hydra.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Mike Folsom)
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Subject: Re: AIDS and HIV
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Date: 24 Jun 91 23:52:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.151525.1480@cs.ucla.edu> gerri@watson.ibm.com (Gerri Oppedisano) writes:
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>Has there been any person who has AIDS who didn't have HIV+
>status first? How long has the longest period of HIV+ status
>without symptoms been? I've heard that everyone who is HIV+
>eventually develops AIDS; is this rumor?
>
>gerri@watson.ibm.com

As I understand it there are people who have AIDS who never test
positive for HIV.  As far as how long somone has been HIV+ before
developing AIDS well that gets longer every year.  

Really the idea of cofactors being involved in AIDS has been 
around from the start.  I understand that recently even people
like Gallo have started to talk of cofactors.  

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