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Can early symptoms of hiv include an inflamation in the brain if possible exposure was 5 weeks ago?
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Yes: Central nervous system manifestations of acute HIV infection may occur but are uncommon. There may be many other potential causes. Let your neurologist or infectious diseases expert work out this problem. Hope you are better soon.
Answered 6/10/2014
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