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Discovery of New HIV Variant Sends Warning for COVID Pandemic
Scientific American ^

Posted on 02/17/2022 7:31:39 AM PST by MNDude

As SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has spread throughout the world, many observers have failed to take note of the millions of illnesses and deaths caused by HIV—another virus that has approached pandemic status during its history. Now an HIV variant that is more virulent and transmissible has been discovered in the Netherlands, where it apparently has been circulating for decades, according to new research. Luckily, none of the variant’s new mutations make it resistant to widely used therapies. But the finding may offer a warning for how the COVID pandemic could proceed in the coming months: viruses do not necessarily evolve to become milder.

Without treatment, people infected with the newly identified HIV variant have more than three to more than five times higher levels of the virus in their blood, making them more infectious. Plus, their immune system deteriorates twice as fast, setting them on a course to potentially develop AIDS years earlier than people with other versions of HIV. These findings, published this month in Science, indicate the newfound variant carries more than 500 mutations scattered across its genome—though it is unclear how they enable the virus to cause more-severe disease.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hiv; hivvariant; news; vaids
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1 posted on 02/17/2022 7:31:39 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

Ah, we now have today’s dose of fear porn.
From a formally believable science mag.


2 posted on 02/17/2022 7:34:00 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: MNDude

Odd that HIV has been around for a long time, but suddenly, there’s a new variant.

Uh huh.


3 posted on 02/17/2022 7:35:34 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: MNDude

“viruses do not necessarily evolve to become milder.”

I don’t know how we managed to live with the common cold all these eons, without being in a constant state of panic.


4 posted on 02/17/2022 7:35:41 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: MNDude

I’m starting to see many articles like this


5 posted on 02/17/2022 7:36:31 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: MNDude

So will the transmissible carriers of HIV and any HIV variants be labeled as dangerous like the Covid unvaccinated?


6 posted on 02/17/2022 7:37:00 AM PST by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: MNDude

Oh good God.


7 posted on 02/17/2022 7:37:16 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: PMAS

Yep. New narrative.


8 posted on 02/17/2022 7:38:22 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!!! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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9 posted on 02/17/2022 7:38:38 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: MNDude

So, while injecting drugs on the street or having anal sex with strange men - wear a mask!!


10 posted on 02/17/2022 7:40:20 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MNDude

How long before everyone’s eyes are opened to what these despots & future genocidal maniacs are trying to do to us.


11 posted on 02/17/2022 7:40:22 AM PST by skeeter
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"...none of the variant’s new mutations make it resistant to widely used therapies."

Yet. That virus is expert at evading new medicines when given the slightest chance. And sodomites love exercising this virus.

12 posted on 02/17/2022 7:41:23 AM PST by fwdude (If a fraudulent election falls in the woods and no judge is around to hear it, did it fall?)
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I’m not the least bit worried about HIV infecting my lifestyle.... Liberals on the other hand should be scared shxtless.


13 posted on 02/17/2022 7:41:25 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MNDude
This is a new scam to distract us from the damaging effects of the "vaccines" on the immune system: See, it's not the vaccines that are causing people to develop AIDS...

Presto. Behold a convenient new HIV variant.

Scientific American has been worthless for many years now. It morphed into a political rag.

14 posted on 02/17/2022 7:41:36 AM PST by Blennos ( )
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Awww geez, not this sh$t again.


15 posted on 02/17/2022 7:42:08 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: MNDude

Keep foreign objects out of your butt snd you’ll do fine.


16 posted on 02/17/2022 7:42:57 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: carikadon
So will the transmissible carriers of HIV and any HIV variants be labeled as dangerous like the Covid unvaccinated?

Regarding both, notice that none of the disgusting sodomite hookup apps were mandated to shut down either during COVID, or throughout the ongoing HIV fiasco.

17 posted on 02/17/2022 7:43:10 AM PST by fwdude (If a fraudulent election falls in the woods and no judge is around to hear it, did it fall?)
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To: MNDude
PERFECT TIMING!
This should peak right around April and we can demand mail in voting for the mid-terms next fall!



All according to plan
18 posted on 02/17/2022 7:43:30 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Huskrrrr

A cynical person might wonder if there is a correlation between this “HIV variant” and auto immune issues caused by the Covid “vaccines”.


19 posted on 02/17/2022 7:44:01 AM PST by skeeter
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To: MNDude
Bullfauci !
20 posted on 02/17/2022 7:44:19 AM PST by tomkat ( .. btw, TRUMP WON )
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