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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
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To: UnChained
Good point - not to mention - challenging this retrovirus with exotic drugs enhances mutations.
To: Neuromancer
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. So, HIV is becoming like a BORG-virus; adjusting to whatever you are trying to use to kill it.
To: NC Conservative
What a great time it is to practice monogamy. The AIDs phenomenon began shortly after my hubby and I were married. I remember after one news report, my husband just shook his head and said, "Boy, am I glad I'm married."
To: rwfromkansas
I mean, you get AIDS by choice. To the married couples who get it, I feel for them. But, not anybody else.
To: LibertarianLiz
Yes..It is a very smart and 100% deadly virus
To: Neuromancer
This is nothing that an immediate and effectively administered quarantine of the infected can't solve.
How many hundreds of thousands of prematurely dead people would be alive today if we had the guts and good sense to do the one thing that really needed to be done back when the numbers of infected were few?
To: Time Traveller; Doc Savage
The HIV virus has not been demonstrated to cause anything. Even the HIV tests only indicate the presence of antibodies which coorelate to numerous conditions unrelated to the presence of HIV (i.e. there's not even a test in existence that reliably indicates the presence of the virus, which has not been shown to be the cause of anything, anyway.)I think you two are saying basically the same thing, only I can't figure out what that "thing" is. Are you saying HIV positives won't necessarily develop AIDS? Are you saying that monogamy won't prevent others from getting AIDS? In layman's terms, please explain exactly what you ARE saying?
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:32:39 PM PST
by
dubyagee
To: LibertarianLiz
All virii or bacteria adjust to whatever you give them. Resistance is known among many strains of virii and bacteria. When you treat an organism with something lethal, there will inevitably be a few that survive your little chemical warfare due to particular mutations in their genomic codes. These survivors then reproduce in a newly clean environment. Joy! Bliss! Resistant Infection! /sarcasm
To: Neuromancer
ANN ARBOR, MI - Absence of a genetic mutation that protects people from HIV infection could be a major factor responsible for the current AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new model developed by University of Michigan scientists. "The critical mutation is in the gene for a receptor molecule called CCR5, which the HIV virus uses to infect immune cells in its human host," says Denise Kirschner, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology and immunology in the U-M Medical School.
"People with two copies or alleles of this mutation are almost completely protected against HIV," explains Kirschner. "Those with one mutated and one normal copy can be infected, but they carry lower levels of the virus and take two years longer, on average, to develop AIDS. People with two normal copies of the CCR5 gene are most susceptible to HIV infection."
Previous studies by other scientists found that the CCR5 mutation is much more common in people of European descent than in African or Asian populations. So Kirschner and her colleagues developed a mathematical model to test their hypothesis that the prevalence of CCR5 mutations can limit the spread of AIDS in an entire population. Results of the model were published in the August 21 on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To: Ciexyz
Intraveneous drug users and the gay community better wise up. Stop engaging in self-destructive behavior, falsely thinking that an AIDS cocktail will save you.At the rate Aids is going, it won't be long before most intraveneous durg users and most of the gay community are dead. Most of them will not change their ways. What a shame, but they do have a choice.
To: Doc Savage
You're full of it...
you can't be a real doc and not know how the HIV virus works. Heck, I'm a PRE-med, and I can tell ya that you're completely wrong.
HIV attacks a certain type of lymphatic cell (T-cells, if I remember correctly). Once the lymphatic cells are killed, that's AIDS. Those 40 diseases your referenced? Those are opportunistic infections that take advantage of a weakened immune response.
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:37:53 PM PST
by
jude24
To: UnChained
We should take a few lessons from Fidel.
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:38:20 PM PST
by
winodog
To: Stefan Stackhouse
Alas what you say is true..
Had this epidemic not been political we would have been allowed to do normal contact tracing and mass screening.
Too late, I'm sorry to say
To: Doc Savage
Go Doc, huzzah! for helping dispell the HIV/AIDS myth.
HIV does not cause AIDS This is not Tin-foil hat stuff, it is real science, rather than the pseudoscience the pharmagaysocialmedical establishment is pushing. For more info Dr. Peter Duesberg's web site is here.
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:39:25 PM PST
by
Talkwire
To: Neuromancer
The cure for aids?
Knowing the difference between an entrance and an exit.
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:39:27 PM PST
by
drstevej
To: keithtoo
Hate to be a party pooper folks, Or a pooper partier! ;^)
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:39:56 PM PST
by
Abcdefg
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To: Neuromancer
Mark my words, this will somehow be W's fault. We will soon be hearing cries of stopping the war to use the money for AIDS drugs.
To: Neuromancer
Sounds like the homo's are f'd. Oh, wait a minute.......
To: Stefan Stackhouse
"This is nothing that an immediate and effectively administered quarantine of the infected can't solve."
100% Quarantine of all those AT RISK of spreading this disease. HIV (AIDS) should be eradicated in One Generation!
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posted on
11/05/2001 3:47:00 PM PST
by
Dacus943
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