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To: tallhappy
Ooops wrong link, but you can check out all of the CDC data yourself, but I would like to give you a direct link to the Technical notes on the reporting and surviellence data . . . please note the 6th paragraph from the top:

"Over time, HIV infection may progress to AIDS and be reported to surveillance. Persons with HIV infection (not AIDS) who are later reported as having AIDS are deleted from the HIV infection (not AIDS) tables and added to the AIDS tables. Persons with HIV infection may be tested at any point on the clinical spectrum of disease; therefore, the time between diagnosis of HIV infection and diagnosis of AIDS differs. In addition, because surveillance practices differ, the reporting and updating of persons’ clinical and vital status differs among states. Completeness of reporting for HIV infection (not AIDS) is estimated at more than 85% [4]. By matching data in the national surveillance database, CDC estimates that approximately 2% of cases of HIV infection (not AIDS) are duplicates."

The people on these tables who have AIDS, by definition of the data, had HIV first, as reported! (With a few exceptions noted; ~20 cases of AIDS without any detectable HIV Ab). You do the math.

89 posted on 01/25/2004 5:18:00 PM PST by realpatriot71 (legalize freedom!)
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To: realpatriot71
Thanks. I am actualy more interested in the current ideas on the virology and pathophysiology you mentioned in passing. What is the current molecular understanding of how the HIV virus cause the deaths of T-cells or other immune system cells?
90 posted on 01/25/2004 5:23:10 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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