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Diagnosing Primary HIV Infection
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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Primary HIV infection is the symptomatic illness that can occur shortly after a person becomes infected with the virus. Symptoms include fever, fatigue, sore throat, muscle aches, joint pains, and/or rash. Since symptoms such as these are commonly caused by other infections, and since …
