San Diego Man May Have New HIV Strain

kfmb ^ | 2.15.05

[Semper Paratus]

Sounds like a real pain-in-the-ass.

[Spktyr]

I think that Doctor Little is about to get a nasty surprise. I think this variant *is* going to become widespread - among the gay male population.

[ambrose]

For everyone involved. While we're not going to the bathhouses or molesting little boys, we get to pick up the tab for their "health-care"..

[Wally_Kalbacken]

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[End Times Sentinel]

That new "Super AIDS" is sweeping the nation!

I'll say what we're all thinking - If only we'd spent more money on education, this poor little AIDS Monkey wouldn't be in the jam he's in now.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[elmer fudd]

Actually it probably won't. One of the primary reasons AIDS is a successful disease is because it's victims are infected, but otherwise healthy for years at a time and thus are able to pass it on. A strain of AIDS that exhibits symptoms and kills it's victims rapidly will soon die out.

[brownsfan]

Actually, if it's faster, and deadlier, the health care costs go down. Those with HIV who take the drug cocktails, that's a big part of the burden.
Just looking at it dispassionately. Although I don't agree with the lifestyle choice, I don't wish HIV/AIDS on anyone, (except maybe Osama bin Laden).

[freebird5850]

I saw a very interesting documentary last week in which it
is thought that HIV came about from a group of French doctors who inoculated over 1 million Africans with a tainted vaccine. The serum was prepared with chimp tissue instead of traditional rhesus monkey. It was very hush-hush for many years.

[MaxMax]

/Cue the violins

[sportutegrl]

Yes, the drug coctail. Making hiv positive persons live longer, look healthier, and able to spread hiv easier, even to young boys. The cost of health insurance would drop overnight, if companies were allowed to charge high risk groups (homosexuals) what they were costing the group.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Awwwwwwwwwwww, isn't that special... No sympathy here.

[vetvetdoug]

Is this going to be a widespread epidemic.....this particular strain? No, I don't think it will be. said Dr. Susan Little...

This female University M.D. hasn't got a clue as to the previous history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The mud sharks will spread this like wildfire. Remember the index case for AIDS? The French Canadian knew he was carrying HIV and killing people and yet he kept on having unprotected sex until he died. Now multiply that attitude by a factor of a thousand. Next thing we will hear the gay community complaining that it was Bush's fault.

[Beckwith]

Whoopee, I'm famous!

[Beckwith]

The French Canadian knew he was carrying HIV and killing people and yet he kept on having unprotected sex until he died.

That French Canadian was a steward for Air Canada. Known as "Patient Zero", he traveled far and wide bearing gifts.

He was a one-man plague. He even said that he was angry that he was infected and that was one of the reasons that he continued to infect others, out of rage. He consciously knew what the results of his lifestyle were.

[jackbenimble]

Maybe this super AIDS virus is the answer to the gay marriage issue.

[Sergio]

"One local doctor says there's no need to panic.

"Is this going to become a widespread epidemic…this particular strain? No, I don't think it will be," said Doctor Susan Little an associate professor of medicine at UCSD."

Thanks for the words of comfort doc, but I bet you let the spittle fly, and get that vein in your forehead to really pulse, when the topic is second hand smoke or asbestos floor tiles, or radon in the home.

Isn't it funny that HIV/AIDS is the only disease that doctors go out their way to paint as nonthreatening, or no big deal.

What a hypocrite.

Best Regards

Sergio

[steve86]

A strain of AIDS that exhibits symptoms and kills it's victims rapidly will soon die out.

I'm not sure the analogy with Ebola holds up. Even if full-blown AIDS occurs within three months, that is still three months that others can be infected, and others from them. And some with full-blown AIDS will continue to have sex while they are physically able.

[ken5050]

Also, the Eola outbreaks have usually occcured in somewhat isolated villages...it burns out because it kills everyone AND because it can't spread beyond the village..

[steve86]

Agreed. And if the infected AIDS individual has one "good" night -- 10 or more partners -- that's plenty of opportunity for the infection to spread out of control. Think rabbits or hamsters.

What I don't know is what time must elapse between infection and the ability to spread the infection.