Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, explains that one of the things that makes the HIV virus so difficult is that it's a retro virus, which means it has the ability to take its genetic material an...
In record time, using technical means not available a few years earlier, scientists isolated and identified the virus they called HIV--Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The virus, which multiplies rapidly in the body, attaches itself to the T4 cell, the...