Posted on 11/05/2001 3:05:54 PM PST by Neuromancer
New strain of HIV is resistant to main drug
By Steve Connor Science Editor
06 November 2001
A new type of Aids virus can quickly turn resistant to one of the most effective drugs used to treat the disease. Scientists discovered the new strain among 603 HIV-positive patients who were so recently infected they had not yet even been given drugs. Their findings suggest the much-feared increase in drug-resistant forms of HIV is beginning to take root with a strain that has an in-built capacity to resist treatment with AZT, the principal anti-Aids treatment.
Although drug-resistant strains of HIV were discovered in 1992 they were almost invariably found in patients having treatment with one or more anti-viral drugs. While drug resistance has been seen in HIV-infected patients before, it has seldom been seen in untreated patients.
The latest strain was evidently transmitted among people who have never been exposed to AZT, suggesting that drug resistance is spreading rapidly within HIV-positive people who may not even know they are infected.
The latest study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found several genetic mutations in the new strain of HIV made the virus perfectly poised for further mutations that conferred full AZT-resistance. Dr Garcia-Lerma said doctors would test patients for this new strain and report its prevalence so the general rise in drug-resistance could be monitored.
If such strains become widespread, that will be a severe setback in Aids treatment.
When I mentioned "cluttering up the thread", this is what I was talking about. "the fact is"??? Sez who??? What specific documentation have you provided to back your claims? Diddly Squat.
About 0.5% of the population of this world is HIV-positive. - Most of them don't even know it, and that is good, because if they never know it they are likely to live a long, happy normal life.
If they should ever find out, then they are in danger from then on. - Why? - Because when they find out, the ducktor will likely try to get them to take AZT, which is one of the chief causes of death in HIV positive people.
The virus has been around since the beginning of time, but the disease that it is credited with causing began about 20 years ago. The real cause of AIDS is heavy drug use over a prolonged time (10-15 years).
There are many people who have AIDS, but are not HIV-positive. There are also many people who have AIDS, and are HIV-positive, but were not HIV-positive when they first showed the symtoms of AIDS.
Read Peter Duesberg's book "Inventing the AIDS Virus" and find out the truth. - Don't be spooked by the smoke screen being put out by those who profit from prescribing deadly poisons like AZT, ddI, and ddC.
AIDS is even curable if you get off the drugs when the symptoms first show up. - It's not about sex, or HIV; it's about Drugs, and the damage that they do to the body.
IV druggies, Homo's, and popper users: Wake up and see what you're doing to yourself.
Yes, it tells us that AIDS is NOT a communicable disease, it is a medical syndrome, as was first recognized, that is caused by overwhelming the body's immune system with toxic substances over an extended period of time.
Recreational drugs cause AIDS, and so does AZT, but quicker.
It's very wrong that having HIV achieved de-facto civil rights status. A person has a contageous and fatal disease that has no cure and they have a right to go wherever they want. No one that they come in contact with has to know that they have HIV.
HIV is a nightmare disease. If you wanted to conjure up a science fiction space virus you would be hard pressed to imagine a worse disease. It's 100 percent fatal and it's incurable. It has a long latency period where a person might be a carrier but have no symptoms for as long as a decade.
But even an incurable disease can be controlled by contact tracing and isolation of infected individuals. The fact that this wasn't done is criminally negligent. The AIDS epidemic if one of the crown jewels of 20th century liberalism.
I somewhat disagree. I'll bet anything that recreational drug use is rampant in the straight porn industry - yet no epidemic.
Again, what does that tell us?
Yes, that's exactly what he is saying, and he is right.
The HIV virus has been around since Noah's Ark without causing AIDS; the only difference is that now we have recreational drugs, and the entertainment media to promote them.
Drugs, and only drugs are the cause of AIDS, and AIDS is not even necessarily fatal if drug use is stopped soon enough.
Senator, this may shock you, but there is no "straight porn industry."
The porn industry is dominated by homo/bi-sexual individuals, but even the straights that are in it die quite young, and usually of immune suppression/opportunistic infection.
You are right that there is no epidemic, but that is also true across the board. - There have not yet been 400,000 AIDS deaths in the western world. The exact number cannot be pinned down, because AIDS deaths where the victim is not HIV-positive are not logged as AIDS for purely political reasons.
Please post a (reliable) link to that claim.
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