[Black Agnes]

Fungal infections are opportunistic infections.

People with weakened immune function, in particular, succumb to those.

So a virus that takes out your immune system puts you at risk for fungal infections.

[Black Agnes]

In particular, anything that lowers your CD4 count...

[riri]

Yup, very often the first symptom of that other virus was oral thrush.

Many don't remember the early days of that other virus, before it was controlled by anti-virals.

[calenel]

Right. But there are many viruses and other pathogens that weaken the immune system. Secondary infections are responsible for a lot of the deaths.