the morning after....
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I guess so.
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Pull my finger
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You can't "kill it," but there is evidence that shows that taking antiretroviral medications immediately after you come into contact with HIV will prevent you from getting infected. The virus will stay in your bloodstream until it naturally dies off, but the drugs will keep it from reproducing. This only works if you take medications say, the day after sleeping with an HIV-infected person. There are some people who are HIV-positive but completely asymptomatic after years of infection. Most of these people have what is known as the "delta 32 allele deletion," which is a mutation that changes a receptor on your white blood cells and prevents HIV from infecting the cell. Others, like Magic Johnson, have had very good medical care, are otherwise very healthy individuals, and have had luck on their side, allowing them to be largely symptom-free after many years.
h: They're correctional officers and their co-workers have been uhh... not so fortunate during certain altercations with prisoners.
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You can't "kill it," but there is evidence that shows that taking antiretroviral medications immediately after you come into contact with HIV will prevent you from getting infected. The virus will stay in your bloodstream until it naturally dies off, but the drugs will keep it from reproducing. This only works if you take medications say, the day after sleeping with an HIV-infected person. There are some people who are HIV-positive but completely asymptomatic after years of infection. Most of these people have what is known as the "delta 32 allele deletion," which is a mutation that changes a receptor on your white blood cells and prevents HIV from infecting the cell. Others, like Magic Johnson, have had very good medical care, are otherwise very healthy individuals, and have had luck on their side, allowing them to be largely symptom-free after many years.
So tell me what you know about the highly infectious superaids.
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Most researchers aren't really worried about "Superaids." Most of the cases of "superaids" reported in the media were the result of an individual having sex with multiple hiv-positive partners in a short time span and being infected with several strains of HIV at once, which meant resistance to available medications and much quicker disease progression.
So stay away from male-on-male orgies, and you should be okay.
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Normally, 3 drugs are given for HIV prevention, and they are pretty powerful, high dosage medications. The first couple of weeks of treatment with HIV meds are pretty tough, with common side effects including diarrhea, nausea, dizziness, loss of appetite, rash, and abnormal dreams. This will normally go away after 2-3 weeks as your body gets used to the meds.