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HIV / AIDS doesn't kill anyone.

Its the NEXT disease that kills you: all HIV does is kill off your white-blood cells and prevent your body from fighting off the next disease.

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Colloquially: when someone dies of a typical flu / cold when they were infected by AIDS, we call that "dying because of AIDS", even though AIDS had very little to do with the ultimate death of that person.



If a patient would have likely survived that flu “but for” AIDS, it seems to me that AIDS had quite a bit to do with that untimely death.




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