Vemund, S.H., J. Am. Slow disease increases the chance for spreading the disease, this virus is much more dangerous than Ebola. CD4 T-cells regulate the immune response, and their loss leads to immunodeficiency.
Death occurs due to opportunistic infections.
For asymptomatic patients treated with 500 mg of zidovudine, a reduction in the quality of life due to severe side effects of therapy approximately equals the increase in quality of life associated with a delay in the progression of HIV disease. Virus Dynamics in HIV Type 1 Infection. Patients given drugs that block HIV production and the kinetics of virus destruction, T-cell survival, and new viral synthesis determined. Estimate 300 viral generations per year, error rate means that each base in the viral genome is mutated 104 or 105 times each day. We don't know why.