Can you spot the 'real HI Virus' among these images? Go ahead, take a good look. Actually the correct answer is none of the above.There are quite a few such images on various websites claiming to depict the HI virus, some very detailed and others more crude, some in vivid colour and others in clinical black and white. But they all have one thing in common... none is an actual image of HIV, since no one has ever isolated one! Nonetheless these images, and others like them, often produced with an off-the-shelf graphics program, serve to perpetuate the myth that some tangible science lies behind the HIV / AIDS scenario.For a good perspective on what these images actually depict, take a look at Dr Stefan Lanka's analysis of images such as those above that proliferate on the internet these days.