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What happens if someone who has lupus catches aids? is that a fatal combination?
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Lupus and HIV AIDS: No, it's not fatal. Life itself is always fatal, as far as we know, except for hela cells. Having lupus and HIV infection together may shorten a person's life, but neither condition is rapidly fatal, nor is the combination. It depends on how severe the lupus is, to a degree, and how virile or rapidly mutating the HIV strain of virus is. But there are many known cases of people having both.
Answered 6/10/2014
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