Why can't the body resist HIV?

The reason why people have not been able to fight HIV infection is because a single protein created by the virus causes people to lose their defenses.

Research shows that, when HIV enters the human body, they produce a protein called vpu directly against the immune defense proteins. Normally, immune system proteins prevent the ability to spread and replicate throughout the body. However, vpu has disabled this defense mechanism so that HIV virus can easily invade and grow.

According to the researchers' experiments, when they separate the virus's gene to eliminate vpu, human immune system cells can fight HIV easily.

Professor Michale Gale, an immunologist at Washington University, said: 'We have successfully identified the' powerful weapon 'that the HIV virus uses to overcome the defense system's defense. on body. This finding could be used to create new anti-HIV therapy for HIV-infected patients. '

Although the results only explain the impact of the virus in the first phase of the infection process, it still works to help researchers better understand how this dangerous virus can be avoided. The human immune system.

According to Professor Gale, the discovery of this protein is very important in developing drugs to fight HIV because this virus is very sophisticated in adapting to resistance to current drugs.