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HIV Can Convert T Cells From Helpers to Killers
POZ ^ | July 1, 2026 | Liz Highleyman

Posted on 07/01/2026 2:42:28 PM PDT by fwdude

Some CD4 T cells infected with HIV can take on the characteristics of CD8 cells, according to a study published in Science. The researchers found that this transformed population of induced CD8 cells can still harbor latent HIV and contributes to the viral reservoir, which has implications for functional cure strategies.

Antiretroviral therapy can keep HIV suppressed indefinitely, but the virus inserts its genetic blueprints into host cells and establishes a long-lasting viral reservoir that is impervious to the drugs and usually invisible to the immune system, making a true cure nearly impossible.

(Excerpt) Read more at poz.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: aids; hiv; homosexualagenda; tcells

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

A lot of medically technical discussion in this article, but it just shows how tenacious and wily this virus really is.

God is truly able to outsmart sinners.

Yes, I said it. God created and sent AIDS.

1 posted on 07/01/2026 2:42:28 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

the cure is to stop sticking your peckers into other mens hairy butt holes.


2 posted on 07/01/2026 2:45:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: fwdude

And if you get it from a blood transfusion, that’s God’s punishment for your sin.


3 posted on 07/01/2026 2:46:14 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: AppyPappy
And if you get it from a blood transfusion, that’s God’s punishment for your sin.

God punished all of Sodom even if Lott could find ten good men. Sometimes collateral damage can't be avoided.

4 posted on 07/01/2026 2:48:25 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: AppyPappy

Sounds like we need to be extremely prejudiced in who we take blood from to me.


5 posted on 07/01/2026 3:05:47 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: fwdude

Do not watch many commercials these days, but one really floored me.

The title of the commercial could have been: Undetectable.

The medicine is Truvada Antiretroviral Therapy (ART).

With enough of the medicine, “some” people’s tests will result in HIV being “undetectable.” It does not say “gone” “cured” just.... we cannot detect it.

At the end of the commercial they made it obvious that, with the undetectable result..... “You can start dating again!”


6 posted on 07/01/2026 3:09:43 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: fwdude

I thought this was previously known.


7 posted on 07/01/2026 3:10:02 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: fwdude

or vice-versa depending on how you look at it...


8 posted on 07/01/2026 3:26:50 PM PDT by sipow
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To: fwdude

It was Abraham who entreated God to spare Sodom if ten righteous men could be found in it. And if there were, then God would have kept His word.


9 posted on 07/01/2026 5:17:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: fwdude

I searched at POZ to look for articles on premature aging from HIV. First one returned: https://www.poz.com/article/hiv-aging-cd4-15938-5714#search-query=Premature%20aging%20from%20hiv


10 posted on 07/01/2026 5:44:38 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

No problem. Haven’t you heard? Just take Prep before you head to the orgy.


11 posted on 07/01/2026 7:56:31 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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