Posted on 02/04/2008 3:35:44 PM PST by NoLibZone
A once-promising experiment to see if treating genital herpes with a common drug could dramatically reduce susceptibility to HIV infection has found no protection whatsoever -- a shocking setback for researchers hoping to find a pill that would slow the spread of the AIDS epidemic.
Results of the long-awaited study, which included gay men in San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Peru, as well as women in Africa, were released here Monday at the 15th annual Retrovirus conference, the premiere annual scientific meeting of AIDS researchers.
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Well, this “shocking setback” would seem to reinforce the messages of safe sex and avoiding risky behavior, wouldn’t it?
Bill Clinton is Sad......
..speechless...
No, Dr. deCOCK, what is needed is for men to stop $#@*%ing their partners in their &^(%$es.
Funny, one would think that promiscuous, unprotected sex would increase the risk of HIV infection-and all along it's been herpes. Whooda thunk it? San Francesspool can rest easier now.
There’s a reason God gave us a simple to follow owners manual.
So is that why people get cancer or malaria or polio, too, because they're not following God's owner's manual? You sound downright gleeful that an effort to cure disease seems to have failed. Sick, no matter what you think of the people most affected.
“What we really need,” he said, “is a herpes vaccine.”
Acyclovir only suppresses the Herpes virus, what’s needed
is something that kills it completely.
An HIV/Aids infected partner with genital herpes. Wow, sounds attractive.
Sarc/OFF
That’s the problem with a retrovirus.
Once it gets into a cell, it is possible for it to pull a nasty on ya - it splices it’s DNA into the cell’s DNA.
The virus then may or may not die.
As far as the immune system is concerned, at this point you are not infected. The only thing the immune system sees is your own normal cell membranes.
At some time in the future, something triggers the viral segments to start churning out real, live viruses, and your cells that have the corrupted DNA turn into virtual virus factories, producing tens of thousand if not millions of copies of the virus.
All shiny and brand new and ready to wreak their damage.
There are really 613 commandments to follow, not 10. Which of them don’t you do on a regular basis?
Lots of people on here with this belief. How does that explain people who live long healthy lives who are non-believers? Or believers who die of diseases more horrendous than HIV.
The ones that state not to expose ones self to high risk activities.
Do you feel that belief matters if you smoke cigarettes or are over weight?
Actually it’s you who emabrace their deaths.
If one were to minimize the risk, they’d do better whether it’s sex or ciggs.
You want them to suffer, to feel better about the choices you have made.
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