Posted on 02/13/2005 6:29:39 PM PST by docbnj
New Resistant HIV Strain May Produce Full-Blown AIDS February 14, 2005
A new strain of HIV has health authorities in New York and elsewhere concerned. The new strain called 3-DCR HIV, diagnosed in one man who is said to have had multiple sex partners, has shown resistance to many of the medications normally used to quell the disease, according to Newsday. And while it can normally take a decade for HIV infection to spawn full-blown AIDS, in this case the individual's disease is thought to have advanced in just a few months or at most 20 months after the man became infected with HIV, the newspaper said.
A prepared statement on the case from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation noted that the man had tested negative for HIV on five previous occasions, most recently in May of 2003. As one official noted in the statement, "This man's strain of infection appears to be much more pathogenic, much more able to wreak havoc with his immune system."
Indeed, the individual's 3-DCR HIV strain "did not respond to three of four types of antiviral drugs most commonly prescribed; he is now receiving a fourth regimen," according to the Associated Press.
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I think that even mild-mannered people like me have the right to resent the irresponsibility of the promiscuous gay "lifestyle," which shows so little regard for their own or anyone else's health. This is not a civil rights issue: it is a health issue.
I thought it was the opposite. With this disease, he effectively only has three months to spread it before people stop taking it in the rear from him. Had he gotten regular HIV, then he would have ten years to spread it around.
The coverage of this story is really poor. The PC-ness of the situations\ has prompted the media to ommit the fact that he's a) a homosexual b) is heavily into drugs c) has had according to some reports, numerous homosexual sex encounters in a short period of time.
The fact that someone like that is likely to develop aids shouldn't be overlooked.
As a monogomous heterosexual, I am more concerned about mad cow disease, avian flu and the quality of my drinking water.
Anyone in this day and age not using a condom is cuckoo for cocoa puffs!
The day when hiv mutates airborne and (innocent)people start getting it in droves you will see HIV/AIDS style concentration camps. PC will go out the window really fast when Susie Soccer mom is worried her little Johnnie will gets HIV. Shows like Queer eye etc will be taboo.
And a taxpayer fiscal responsibility issue. Most of the dollars for health care research is provided by the government through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). That means you and I pay for it.
Now, consider for just a moment how much of your money goes to HIV/AIDS research, a TOTALLY preventable disease, while breast cancer and lung cancer and heart disease take our loved ones away from us at a rate that FAR exceeds the incidence of AIDS and have no known cure.
The inequity of AIDS vs. cancer research, when incidence is considered, is breath-taking. Call or write your congressman today.
I hear you on this. What amazes me about the gay rights movement is that they argue they need to be granted full civil rights and cloak themselves in the imagery civil rights movement of the 1960's. But look at the behavior in the gay bathhouses and the examples of sex with multiple anonymous partners while high on meth or poppers (amyl- or butyl-nitrate). If that is not the epitome of objectification of a human being (use of another human as an orifice or fixture of some sort for pleasure without any relationship) I don't know what is. The counter example is always cited as the monogamous long term homosexual relationship - but how typical is that of homosexuals?
My concern is that if the virus mutates and takes an even more dangerous or costly turn - will we prove to have learned nothing in the last twenty years about how to deal with this threat? The staggering financial cost of this epidemic - the dislocation of all sorts of health funding that could be developing treatments for diseases we cannot avoid - just to support a disease population that could have made behavioral changes, but didn't, and didn't care about having the rest of the population shoulder the burden.
Here is the serious problem with this new discovery (if it is really a new strain). Aids is evolving. As it spreads more easily it will continue to evolve as more people get it and the virus goes through many generations and mutations. This new strain is probably caused by the very drugs used to treat it, similar to antibiotic resistance in bacteria or pesticide resistance in insects.
If the Aids virus is able to evolve into spreading like a cold (pnuemonic) like the Black Plague was able to do at times, it will be worse than any tsunami you can imagine.
What should have been done initially and needs to be done immediately is to quarantine all HIV/Aids infected individuals, just as they do with syphillis. That is the only public health measure that will work.
The only reason this is not being done is because of the political correctness leftist fringe who would rather have thousands die than hold a homosexual or a drug addict responsible for their own actions.
Dude....you just craked me up with that comment. THANKS!
Well, now, if he's the only guy who has it so far, it might not be a new strain, it might simply be how his body is reacting to it. Do they really know for sure he tested negative before? Or did he just tell them he's been regularly going to clinics, giving them who-knows-what name...? Well, time will tell.
Even the WSJ is doing the PC thing of not identifying the man was engaged in homosexual behavior. Even FNC is burying this fact.
Patient Zero party II.
Yep. Especially if it's from his teacher or priest.
I am becoming convinced that a component of the gay community is extreme narcissism. How else does one explain a person knowingly infected with a disease with known transmission vectors continue the behavior that spreads it, without any though given to the people soon to be infected?
I agree. I also think that all of his "contacts" should be informed of his diagnosis. So that they can inform all of theirs and so on and so on.......
Remember that health care professionals become infected when taking care of HIV/AIDS patients on occasion. Also, there is an occasional case of infection through transplant organs, etc. Therefore, innocent people contract the disease as well.
"My concern is that if the virus mutates and takes an even more dangerous or costly turn....:"
"If"? This is one of the most mutating viruses on the planet. It adapts and overcomes so speedily that one researcher was moved to call it "clever".
This was at about the time that they discovered that the virus literally decoyed drugs that were effective against it away from itself by by creating a phony target for the drug. It seems it does this kind of trick with the bodys infection response as well.
Given that many gays can have as many as 200 partners a year I'd say the virus will cockroach it's way to putting on a general slaughter among sexually active gays. In other words you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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