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questions. One of these questions is: what would have happened if the virus spreads easily?
Other questions include; what would happen if the virus ends up killing its victims rapidly? What
would if the virus remains undetectable, while it is contagious, in a person who is infected for
years? And in some instances, what would happen if the virus mutates and become something
virulent? (Garrett, 1994). When the author posed these questions, the majority of the scientists
believed that they would be getting most of their research-based answers correctly, and in the
process, come up with a vaccine as well as a cure. However, they failed to understand that the
virus is adapting to the different cocktails of drugs that have been manufactured and taken by
patients in a bid to suppress the viral load of the disease.
Garrett gives a huge part of the book to sexually transmitted maladies and the historical
backdrop of AIDS in America. These sections convey an authentic setting of the shame and
worry related to the primary instances of AIDS in America. It additionally creates a platform
where it exposes the perusers to the glaring references of the time. One example is, "GRID" (Gay
Related Immune Deficiency) and "gay growth". The author additionally catches the minute when
scientists acknowledged the fact that AIDS is not a disease associated with the gay community
but it is something that could dispense anybody regardless of their gender, orientation, and age.
For instance, the children who contracted the sickness through blood transfusions (Garrett,
1994).
Garrett keeps on talking about human commitment in making the microbial world more
grounded, making sickness making operators with more noteworthy protection against microbial
medicine, as found in the rising number of instances of drug-resistant malaria and another case of
methicillin-safe Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) tuberculosis. She features deficient or absence
of financial and social approaches, and poor foundations as vital factors in the spread of

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