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A single measurement of the amount of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a patient's blood can predict the subsequent risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or death, even before the patient shows signs of the disease—so reports a paper (Mellors et al ., p.1167 ) in this issue. In his Perspective, Ho discusses why this is the case and why measurement of viral loads will become extremely useful clinically.
David D. Ho (Fri,) studied this question.