Why is HIV so hard to fight compared to others viruses?
It is hard because HIV is attacking the very cells that are used to fight disease. Chicken Pox, Measles, Ebola, Lassa Fever, even a simple cold sore, do not target the immune system, so the immune system can fight those diseases off. Not always, but even with Ebola people can recover. But with HIV because it hides in the immune systems own cells if you kill the virus you kill the very cell that commands the immune system, leaving the body unable to fight another disease. For example to put make an oversimplified example: Let’s say you get measles. The immune system calls out the troops and after a battle, this is called “being sick” the immune system usually wins and you get better. Your body produces antibodies, fevers and such to do battle and beat the measles virus. But let’s say you have HIV. If you have HIV and you destroy the cell were HIV is living you will destroy the immune system. Now measles virus invades, can your body fight it off? No, because when you killed the HIV you k
