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When a person gets test for the HIV virus, they do not look for the actual HIV virus itself. Whoever is conducting the tests will send them off to a lab where they will then search for the anti-body of the HIV virus. The anti-body is what your body naturally creates once anytime of virus enters the bloodstream to try to kill it off. This has become quite confrontational because a lot of scientists say that the body only creates the anti-body as a sign that the body is now Immune to that virus. It's a naturally way our body tells itself that it has had that virus before. Hence is why you've heard the phrase "You can't get the same cold twice". Because your body creates an anti-body after it has got rid of the virus telling your body that that specific strain of a virus can no survive in your bloodstream. When a person gets test for the HIV virus, they do not look for the actual HIV virus itself. Whoever is conducting the tests will send them off to a lab where they will then search for the anti-body of the HIV virus. The anti-body is what your body naturally creates once anytime of virus enters the bloodstream to try to kill it off. This has become quite confrontational because a lot of scientists say that the body only creates the anti-body as a sign that the body is now Immune to that virus. It's a naturally way our body tells itself that it has had that virus before. Hence is why you've heard the phrase "You can't get the same cold twice". Because your body creates an anti-body after it has got rid of the virus telling your body that that specific strain of a virus can no survive in your bloodstream.

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