When a disease agent invades a healthy person, as in flu for example, our immune system raises a shield of defensive responses that eliminate the intruder in a few days or weeks. In phase 1 HIV infection, on the other hand, the immune system cannot eliminate the intruder, but the shield is still intact and the immune system succeeds in containing the virus.

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