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Is the flu and HIV caused by the same virus?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

Not even close. They are completely different viruses with drastically different RNA sequences (that's like DNA but for viruses).

Wiki User

∙ 12y ago

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