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There is no cure for a virus. Period.

That's your second modification to your original statement that viruses couldn't be stopped (which was wrong). Your first modification was that viruses could only be stopped with other viruses (which was also wrong).

I'm not sure how to respond to "there is no cure for a virus." I'm not even sure what you mean. I'm not even sure YOU know what you mean.

Is there also no cure for a bacteria? Or for a protozoa?

Generally it is medical conditions which are cured not viruses or bacteria or protozoa. So one would say "I have found a cure for Lyme" whereas one would not say "I have found the cure for Borrelia burgdorferi ."

The goal in HIV/AIDS research and in medicine generally is to make sick people healthy and to prevent healthy people from becoming sick.

We can achieve those goals without "curing" a virus, just as we have eliminated smallpox, nearly eliminated polio, and have reduced many other viruses to mere nuisances. So whether we agree on the semantics of the word "cure" or not isn't really relevant.

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