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Article: STUDIES TRACK AIDS IN IMMUNE SYSTEM.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1992
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Byline: Gina Kolata New York Times
Ever since the virus that is associated with AIDS was discovered, scientists have puzzled over a central mystery of the disease.
How can this virus smolder in the immune system for as long as 10 years before it finally destroys a person's ability to fight infections? What is going on in that prolonged period of steady, but very subtle, decline of the immune system?
After years of bafflement, investigators now believe they have nearly cracked the puzzle.
They have several competing ideas to explain the mystery, and some researchers propose that all the mechanisms they are finding may act in concert to ...