My name is Human immunodeficiency virus.I am a Retrovirus.
I'm very retro.
I have 2 types.
I make up the majority of HIV in the world.
I'm mostly found in Africa.
I lead to a disease called AIDS.
I travel through sexual contact, needles, blood and from mother to baby.
I get into CD4+ immune cells.
They make my copies for me.
I start with a flu like illness.
Then I lay low for many years.
Then the illness becomes AIDS.
I lead to other infections, like Candida, PCP, CMV, HHV-8, HSV and Mycobacteria.
2 comments:
Er. a disco outfit with goldfish boots? Normally, I get your personifications of microbes -- but wasn't HIV first discovered in the 1980s -- well past the "Saturday Night Fever" era?
Yea, this might have a been a bit abstract. I was going for a pun on "retro" virus, rather than the saturday night fever 1980s thing.
Maybe it will make more sense when the next microbe is out.
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