New Findings Regarding HIV Virus

Doctors have recently discovered that the dangerous HIV virus, that can be acquired by interactions such as sharing needles or unprotected sex, can actually hide in ones bone marrow. Medication has drastically decreased the number who suffer from HIV and AIDS, but it has now become that much more important that those on this medication continue to take it even after the symptoms are gone. What has occurred is that some people's symptoms of the virus have faded away only to return after stopping the treatment. This is because the virus "hidden" in the bone marrow cells will later turn into blood cells and spread the virus to other blood cells.

This could greatly help researchers in further finding a cure to this ongoing epidemic. However, it also demonstrates how much further we really have to go in order to find a cure. Is this discovery more of a good thing, or a bad thing? I personally think it is good because the virus has always troubled doctors and hopefully this information will lead to further discoveries. But at the same time this can be looked at in a negative light, in the sense that if they just now discovered that the virus can hide in bone marrow, who knows what else they don't know about it that can potentially be very harmful.