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Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System
VOA ^ | September 21, 2011 | Jessica Berman

Posted on 09/25/2011 2:27:01 PM PDT by Daffynition

Scientists say they have found a way to disarm the AIDS virus in research that could lead to a vaccine. Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: aids; medecine; moralabsolutes
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1 posted on 09/25/2011 2:27:05 PM PDT by Daffynition
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Is this why pigs/bacon are being highjacked?
2 posted on 09/25/2011 2:28:57 PM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: Daffynition

to the degenerates, that sounds fabulous..


3 posted on 09/25/2011 2:29:22 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: Daffynition

why not just prohibit back door sex?


4 posted on 09/25/2011 2:29:21 PM PDT by brivette
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To: Daffynition

why not just prohibit back door sex?


5 posted on 09/25/2011 2:29:39 PM PDT by brivette
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To: brivette

As a doctor, I would love to receive an effective AIDS vaccine.


6 posted on 09/25/2011 2:33:51 PM PDT by I-ambush (I didn't think, I never dreamed, that I would be around to see it all come true-McCartney and Wings)
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To: Daffynition

Perverts and Pushers Thrilled!


7 posted on 09/25/2011 2:42:49 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Yer it!")
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To: Happy Rain

“Perverts and Pushers Thrilled!”

How do you think the people who received tainted blood feel?


8 posted on 09/25/2011 2:59:54 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarahcuda in 2012. Nothing but Net!!!)
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To: Happy Rain
We may safely assert by your focus and tone that you personally desire for the spouses and children of the promiscuous or drug addicts who are at greatest risk to continue to die as well.

How virtuous of you.

9 posted on 09/25/2011 3:00:37 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: brivette
why not just prohibit back door sex?

Please elaborate on the expansion of surveillance and police power required to enforce this prohibition.

10 posted on 09/25/2011 3:02:50 PM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: Jim Noble

to get less of something tax it!

so do not prohibit BDS, tax it; a same sex marriage tax to pay for the AIDS research BDS spawned, no pun intended.


11 posted on 09/25/2011 3:40:36 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Jim Noble

to get less of something tax it!

so do not prohibit BDS, tax it; a same sex marriage tax to pay for the AIDS research BDS spawned, no pun intended.


12 posted on 09/25/2011 3:40:40 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: MrEdd
The people you mention are the VICTIMS of the perverts and dope shooters not I. A totally preventable self-inflicted illness spread by the wicked to the innocent—You should target your hate at these and not those who speak the truth.
The many billions spent so that politically connected affluent homosexuals can enjoy unprotected anal sex without worry could have cured several diseases that kill many more innocent mothers and children than AIDS ever could.
Because the cure for AIDS is a politically correct mission and thus takes precedent over diseases that don't depend on sick and deviant behavior many NORMAL people perish for lack of research money for THEIR maladies.
Homosexual activists have oceans of innocent blood on their hands.
13 posted on 09/25/2011 3:54:37 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Yer it!")
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To: Daffynition

I wonder whether this could have application to autoimmune diseases? Seems to attack the same issue...


14 posted on 09/25/2011 3:56:50 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: Daffynition

This is obviously a huge step forward for medical science. Let’s hope that research related to cancer can see the same breakthroughs. And let’s all remember that not all victims of AIDs are people who were sexually promiscuous.


15 posted on 09/25/2011 3:57:24 PM PDT by elhombrelibre ("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The blood came from the perverts or pushers so they should feel hate for those who indulged in the unsanitary behavior that caused the infections of all.

For everybody who is ill with aids who was not a homosexual or intravenous drug user there are thousands with terminal diseases that could have been cured IF BILLIONS of research dollars were not DIVERTED so that homosexuals could be sick without getting sick.


16 posted on 09/25/2011 4:05:05 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Yer it!")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And the families of the thousands of hemophiliacs who have died slow and painful deaths from HIV? Are they “perverts and pushers”?


17 posted on 09/25/2011 4:57:53 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: max americana

“to the degenerates, that sounds fabulous..”

And to anyone who has received blood, or anyone who works in health care and is exposed to blood and blood products daily, it sounds pretty good too, I bet.


18 posted on 09/25/2011 5:00:17 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Happy Rain

So is your position that because the homos are the primary carriers of this disease, non homos who have acquired it through no fault of their own should just shut up and die?

As far as “diverting” money I don’t know if that is true or not but lets be honest, there are also other diseases and afflictions that get more attention than others due to political correctness. Breast cancer for example.


19 posted on 09/25/2011 5:06:34 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: I-ambush
As a doctor, I would love to receive an effective AIDS vaccine.

Do you think this might work with other retroviruses or other classes of virus?

20 posted on 09/25/2011 5:06:52 PM PDT by decimon
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