Posted on 05/07/2018 12:07:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An ancient virus that is a cousin of HIV is infecting a large portion of indigenous people in Australia, and doctors are unsure how it got to be so prevalent.
HTLV-1, or Human T-lymphotropic virus 1, is a human retrovirus that can cause harmful diseases such as bronchitis, leukemia, and lymphoma. Researchers have found traces of the virus in 1500-year-old Andean mummies.
A recent preliminary study from the Baker Institute for Heart and Diabetes in Alice Springs found that 40 percent of adults living in a remote region in Australia are infected with HTLV-1. Less than 14 percent of the population had HTLV-1 in 1993.
In addition, 30 percent of patients have diseases that could have resulted from HTLV-1. The study took place between 2015 and 2018.
"This is probably the highest-ever reported prevalence in any population," said Dr. Graham Taylor, a clinician and professor at Imperial College London.
Most of the infected adults are members of the indigenous community in Australia.
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
Thought so too.
Well said.
Haha!! Yep!
The article was very poorly written by someone that is medically ignorant.
Although the virus has been found in mummies it continues into the present due to normal transmission routes of viruses and the present is not infected from mummies of the past.
A more interesting question is why such a large percentage of the aboriginal population is infected. Also, if this virus is genetically related to HIV it would be very interesting to know the susceptibility of this infected population to HIV. Medically this is very interesting.
Call it Clintoniteist.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread172390/pg1
When Juanita was displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington in 1996, President Bill Clinton joked that she was so attractive, “If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out.”
Call it Clintoniteist.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread172390/pg1
When Juanita was displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington in 1996, President Bill Clinton joked that she was so attractive, “If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out.”
Was Bubba anywhere near a mummy? When viewing one he said: “That’s a good-looking mummy I would date.”
Dancing With the Dead May be Spreading the Plague in Madagascar
http://www.newsweek.com/dancing-dead-plague-madagascar-693513
Beat me to it!
Ahhh! Finally a medically knowledgable take on this article. Thank you. And you’re right. It would be very interesting to look at this from a solid medical perspective.
This explains the time they had to hold her up and throw her in the van. The batteries ran out and needed to be replaced.
Well, well, well. Nice find!!! And this fits many of his ‘attraction cures—female, teenager (although he’ll go for whatever is available), and not given to fighting him off. Perfect for Clinton. No wonder he could barely keep it in his pants. Me thinks if he was alone . . .
I think that’s a good name. For any “natives”.
I’ve been lobbying to call our Indians aborigines for a good while. I detest the term “native American” (capitalized!).
Very good...er...bad...er good.
Try this
**Amerind*8 may refer to: Amerind peoples, also Amerindians, the indigenous peoples of the Americas
notes use of plural
Uh oh!
Another disease for the promiscuous to spread so we can pay for treatment....paranoid alert...paranoid alert...ya think the media and healthcare industry and big pharma want to stimulate others to higher sexual activity and subsequently get STD’s so they can make money off of treatment?
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