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jSA · 5d
How would you explain the homogenous symptoms in different demographic groups that can vary wildly per group?
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Symptoms vary because they depend on what illnesses you get as a result of your weakened immune system – and even then the presentation can be atypical because most symptoms are caused by the immune system. For example, someone with advanced HIV in Arizona might have coccidioidomycosis whereas someone in Botswana wouldn't, and the person in Botswana would be more likely to have TB.
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jSA · 5d
Sure, but then one would expect the symptoms to be heterogeneous within different demographics, and not, for example, all the gays from the 1980s to all get Karposi sacoma.