Talk:Provirus

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Question: Why does a provirus become activated? Once a retrovirus has become a provirus, integrated into a host genome, it is dormant, is it not? Why would it suddenly become active? Can this happen even generations down the line, in the case of a retrovirus that was inserted thousands of years ago?

--Seattleniceguy 19:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)