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My opinion: clearly, H1N1 influenza virus infection has a more severe outcome in individuals who have no virus-specific antibodies against this particular genotype. The first H1N1 strains emerged in 1977, when the H3N2 strain was still most common, but persons who underwent previous H1N1 infection between the two Wolrd Wars were already not alive...Since H1 hemagglutinin is higly variable, when undergoing many points mutations, some H1N1 strain variants may escape the immune predominating memory response and could behave as very new strain. In HIV patients, with already impaired immune system, the problem of high H1 point mutation frequency acts at an even more dangerous manner. Furthermore, great majority of infuenza infected subjects succumb due to bacterial superinfection, since their bronchial epithelium cells as a rule conferring airway cleaning via ciliary movements, are absent and completly fail. When HIV patients are more sensitive to H1N1 infection, this may not be due a direct potentiation of the replication of first virus by the second virus...The enhancement may indirect, via immune response failure or delay.