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HIV Mutating (Super Strain Spreading)
The Independent UK ^ | 11-06-01 | Steve Conner

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.


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KEYWORDS: hiv
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To: NC Conservative
What a great time it is to practice monogamy.

Or in some cases, not to practice at all! :-]

121 posted on 11/05/2001 8:59:46 PM PST by wayne_shrugged
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To: IceCreamSocialist
The last numbers I heard for HIV infected needlesticks on healthcare workers conversion to HIV positive is about 1 in 200. Most HIV positive persons are immunocompromised already or recieve massive innoculations (blood or blood product transfusions). Gay men get tears in their rectums with stool mingling with their blood and hence immuno-compromise. IV drug users use dirty needles and the same happens. Hookers have multiple parters and often use IV drugs to boot. In Africa the people just have poor diets and general poor health. When any of these groups get exposed they readily convert.

I'm sure some suvive a long time without the meds 'cause they change their habits and eat well and exercise. However, habits and lifestyles are hard to change and Gay men are often very very promiscuous; not politically correct but fact; thus increasing their exposure. Coupled with the an already weakened immune system it is no mystery why their HIV rate is so high.

123 posted on 11/05/2001 9:14:33 PM PST by armourup
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To: Stefan Stackhouse
Reply to post #26: The one country in the world (cuba) where aids is on the decline, takes all those infected out of the general population, and puts them in concentration camps. We should follow their example.
125 posted on 11/05/2001 10:47:06 PM PST by A6M3
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To: armourup
Gay men get tears in their rectums with stool mingling with their blood and hence immuno-compromise.

Stool is immuno-compromising? Cite?

126 posted on 11/05/2001 10:53:19 PM PST by Clinton's a rapist
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To: TN Republican
When I was young we used condoms to prevent making babies. The downside was you produced a baby, married the girl and grew up.

Now that skinny bit of rubber stops me getting a virus THAT WILL KILL ME.

Unreal

127 posted on 11/06/2001 12:10:15 AM PST by unending thunder
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To: Neuromancer
Ummm....lemme' guess; AIDS donations are down this year, and the fear needs to be stimulated....
128 posted on 11/06/2001 12:25:02 AM PST by unamused
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To: rwfromkansas
"I mean, you get AIDS by choice. To the married couples who get it, I feel for them. But, not anybody else."

Ryan White might argue the point were he still alive - no sarcasm meant, but what about tainted blood transfusions. What about destroyed families (parents, siblings etc).

Risky perp behavior gets what its asking for, but there is collateral fallout as well -

129 posted on 11/06/2001 12:48:51 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: Stefan Stackhouse
Are you saying that the unbridled sexual freedom of a few thousand now-dead perverts is less important than the health and safety of everyone else?

Radical idea.

131 posted on 11/06/2001 5:29:14 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Hank Kerchief; Time Traveller
Was Ryan White treated with AZT? I've done a google search but can find nothing on his treatment.
132 posted on 11/06/2001 5:45:47 AM PST by dubyagee
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To: Neuromancer
As this link shows, the homos have done this to themselves by using anti-HIV as a preventative that allows them to continue practicing their perversion.
133 posted on 11/06/2001 5:47:21 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: Timesink
How many non-drug using /non-promiscuous people have died in the name of HIV tolerance?

Up to this point, almost zero.

Unless one counts the recipients of contaminated blood products, of course.

134 posted on 11/06/2001 5:48:21 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: The Contrarian
In other words, there is no way t be 100% safe from AIDS.

Yes there is. I can remain in my monogamous relationship with my spouse. All we need do now is protect ourselves from contaminated blood products. Since neither of us is a hemophiliac, that shouldn't be difficult.

AIDS is only a risk for IV drug users, the promiscuous, and sexual deviants.

135 posted on 11/06/2001 6:00:25 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: Clinton's a rapist
Stool is immuno-compromising?

You've never heard of a bowel lesion causing sepsis? Hello?

136 posted on 11/06/2001 6:07:03 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: Neuromancer
I bet that's very much related to the heroin epidemic in Vietnam. Possession of heroin is punishable by death, so it's unlikely that they are going to make clean needles available to stop the spread.
137 posted on 11/06/2001 6:10:03 AM PST by NC_Libertarian
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To: Doc Savage
What?
138 posted on 11/06/2001 6:15:59 AM PST by WriteOn
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To: Doc Savage
This sounds too PC to be true.
139 posted on 11/06/2001 6:20:19 AM PST by WriteOn
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To: dubyagee
(dubyagee)
Was Ryan White treated with AZT? I've done a google search but can find nothing on his treatment.

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(Peter H. Duesberg, 'Inventing the AIDS Virus' BOOK REVIEW - SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN)
In his book [Duesberg] describes a phone call to the Indiana Hemophilia Foundation to inquire about the cause of child hemophiliac Ryan White's death. According to Duesberg his call revealed that "only internal bleeding and hemorrhaging, liver failure, and collapse of other physiological systems were listed."

These conditions," Duesberg writes, "happen to match the classical description of hemophilia; none [are] listed as peculiar to the AIDS condition." But, he continues, "the representative did not seem to know that. It was then acknowledged that White's hemophilia condition was more severe than the average, requiring him to take clotting factor every day near the end. On top of all that, White had taken AZT, the former toxic cancer chemotherapy now prescribed as AIDS treatment. Hemophiliacs, needless to say, are particularly vulnerable to the internal ulcers induced by such chemotherapy. Thus, only media hype transformed White's death from a severe case of hemophilia, exacerbated by AZT, into AIDS."

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Also, go to the following website and search for the phrase The real Ryan White story.

140 posted on 11/06/2001 6:38:59 AM PST by Time Traveller
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