This virus has identical material from HIV-1 at four sites where the virus penetrates cells, according to recently published paper from India. This was a rather surprising finding, so it could be that its discovery is leading to an abundance of caution, on top of other already known factors such as its ability to be contagious when the carrier has no symptoms.

I had wondered why Chinese authorities were treating the virus with two HIV meds, and now it seems that its because they already knew its connections to HIV. What I wonder about is if the HIV meds are actually effective, because it's just a portion of the virus that has HIV sections. I'd assume those sections would have to be sites that HIV meds target.