Why Do Scientists Consider HIV to Be an Emerging Virus

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Multiple Choice

Why do scientists consider HIV to be an emerging virus?

• A)HIV infected humans long before the 1980s, but it has now mutated to a more deadly form.
• B)HIV mutates rapidly making the virus very different from HIV in the early 1980s.
• C)HIV suddenly became apparent and widespread in the 1980s.
• D)HIV is now starting to cause diseases other than AIDS, such as rare types of cancers and pneumonias.
• E)To infect, HIV originally required other concurrent viral infections in the host, however, now HIV can infect humans in the absence of other concurrent viral infections.

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