[jammer]

we want to emphasize that our patient is not rapidly progressing.

I am happy for the patient and ask the following question from an academic, rather than human or emotional viewpoint. Assuming this means that the DISEASE is not rapidly progressing, I ask if this doesn't mean that the inevitable bell curve of this strain, as with any infectious disease, is therefore flatter, thus allowing the possibility for more spread? Is that good epidemiological news for anyone not personally involved?

[July 4th]

That's the problem with some viruses. They take a long time killing the host, thereby allowing the host to infect a number of people before dying. AIDS, unfortunately, has been one of those diseases. Certain outbreaks, like Ebola, are highly deadly, but often "burn out" before too many people pass it on.

[Sweetjustusnow]

He said that the superinfection between two partners might reinforce recommendations that even when individuals who are both infected by HIV have sex that safe sex activities are warranted. Ya think?