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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Early Signs and Symptoms of HIV

Like many people, you probably will not have any early HIV symptoms if you are infected with the virus. You may, however, have a flu-like illness within a month or two after exposure. This illness can include:

Fever
Headache
Tiredness
Enlarged lymph nodes (glands of the immune system easily felt in the neck and groin).

These early HIV symptoms usually disappear within a week to a month, and are often mistaken for those of another viral infection. During this period, people are highly infectious, and HIV is present in large quantities in genital fluids.

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