Why Do Scientists Consider HIV to Be an Emerging Virus

question 31

Multiple Choice

Why do scientists consider HIV to be an emerging virus?

• A) HIV infected humans for many centuries.
• 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.

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