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Can you explain why a person who has recently become hiv positive is more contagious than someone who was diagnosed 5?
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Not necessarily: A person has a higher chance to transmit the virus when their viral load is high; however someone with a low viral can also transmit it, so regardless when a patient is infected, if their viral load is very high she/he has a high probability to transmit it, also if there is genital lesions the risk of transmission is also high, acutely infected patients have high viral load initially.
Answered 8/29/2013
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