AIDS virus reduced in test

WASHINGTON The drug cocktails now being used for AIDS patients are proving able to suppress the virus in lymph tissue as well…

WASHINGTON The drug cocktails now being used for AIDS patients are proving able to suppress the virus in lymph tissue as well as in their blood, scientists said yesterday.

The findings, which appear in the journal Science today, dovetail with numerous studies that have shown the new triple-combination drug therapies are reducing the virus to undetectable levels in the blood, raising hopes that AIDS is becoming a chronic but manageable disease.

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