What we have learned for Corona from the HIV pandemic «kleinezeitung.at



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The HIV pandemic laid the foundation for many virological findings now used in the corona crisis. The expert provides information on today’s World AIDS Day.

Since Sonja krause | 5.10 am, December 1, 2020

What we have learned for Corona from the HIV pandemic
What we have learned for Corona from the HIV pandemic © alexkich – stock.adobe.com

The world is under the spell of the corona pandemic, but today’s December 1st reminds us that there is another pandemic the world has lived with since the early 1980s. The beginnings sound surprisingly up-to-date: In the summer of 1981, the CDC responded with alarm when one of five otherwise healthy gay men , was one. rare pneumonia it happens that otherwise it only affects people with weak immune systems. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that the virus behind Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS for short, was finally discovered: HIV got its name. The abbreviation stands for human immunodeficiency virus. According to estimates by the World Health Organization, the WHO has died so far 39 million people affected by the diseasewhich remains a pandemic to this day.



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