Cure for HIV discovered
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uh huhOriginally posted by boka:again poor social skills.
Man in control will know how to maximise their time.
I can visit my friend and have coffee chat even while having breaks during work or in school
so in conclusion, you've never worked at a serious job before, have you. We don't travel far out of the way during lunch breaks to meet up with strangers. That's what ppl with too much time on their hands do. -
Had a good night sleep you two?
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Why doesn't the whales or other mammals have HIV when they MATE countless times during mating season?Originally posted by deathbait:sigh, here we go again
1) your very premise is ridiculous. It smacks of religious fanatism. HIV is not a punishment brought on us by defying laws set by some mysterious entity. It's a virus. They occur naturally in the wild. How hard is it to understand.
2) i can't reply because your statement here is absurd. Why can't both be mutually true? To say that HIV cannot occur if casual sex were not the natural way of things is to say that broken limbs simply cannot happen because we were meant to run around. Repeat after me. The existance of HIV has nothing to do with humans. It's an epidemic, and much like flu, we have not found a way to shut it down yet. If HIV is indeed a punishment for casual sex, what's flu? A punishment for breathing?
3) The reason this has spanned so many pages is because you refuse to acknowledge that diseases can happen naturally. It's not a punishment from . Vulnerability to a viruses is not uncommon. This just happens to be pretty deadly. As a species, gene diversification is good. How hard are these things to understand?
4) I have thus far simply refused to reply to your questions because they make no sense in the first place. Please apply some logical thinking to your points before you post them.
I'm not sure what your qualifications are, but i'm pretty sure you never took the biology 101 you keep bringing up.
Answer.
Dun give me mad cow diease unless u again plan to compare apple and orange.
Mad cow diease is the by product of human's actions. -
sighOriginally posted by boka:Why doesn't the whales or other mammals have HIV when they MATE countless times during mating season?
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Dun give me mad cow diease unless u again plan to compare apple and orange.
Mad cow diease is the by product of human's actions.
i can't keep repeating my points just because you are too dim to understand them
Whales don't get HIV because the virus don't target them. What kind of question is this.
Similarly, Sheep get scrapie, or what you would call mad cow disease because they are targetted.
There are tons of ailments that only target a small range of species. HIV targets humans. How hard is that to understand? That's like asking me what the dogs did wrong to get Canine herpesvirus.
Btw, mad cow disease was not created by humans. Get your facts right. -
True. Many researchers today believed that HIV actually was a mutation of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) which is prevalent in monkeys. They found the SIV to be very similar to HIV-1. The theory was that hunters in Africa hunted and ate chimpanzees which is infected with this virus, and the SIV which came in contact with humans, began to mutate or adapt, and became HIV. If you read the literature on HIV, one of the reasons why scientists are having a hard time finding a vaccine or cure for HIV, is that the virus mutate very quickly to overcome any kind of vaccine or cure they came up with.Originally posted by deathbait:sigh
i can't keep repeating my points just because you are too dim to understand them
Whales don't get HIV because the virus don't target them. What kind of question is this.
Similarly, Sheep get scrapie, or what you would call mad cow disease because they are targetted.
There are tons of ailments that only target a small range of species. HIV targets humans. How hard is that to understand? That's like asking me what the dogs did wrong to get Canine herpesvirus.
Btw, mad cow disease was not created by humans. Get your facts right.
This is what the scientists are fearful of virus in animals that are yet to attack humans. Virus is good at mutating or adapting itself, and thus when humans come in close contact with animals, it may mutate and infect humans. One example was SARS virus. The virus does not kill the civet cats, but when humans come in contact with them (they eat civet cats in China), the virus infect humans, mutate, and became a very infectious and deadly disease.
Now the scientists are worried about the bird flu. In the beginning, the H5N1 virus was not able to cross from birds to humans. Now some strain are able to do that. We are lucky that the bird flu virus has yet to mutate or adapt to cross from humans to humans. When that happened, it is going to be deadlier than SARS. -
except, sars was hardly serious.
low mortality rate of 6 percent for the average healthy human, which is only slightly higher than the common flu.
Much like terrorism, the main threat of sars was the fear that came after it appeared. -
Some good information here...Originally posted by Kachui:True. Many researchers today believed that HIV actually was a mutation of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) which is prevalent in monkeys. They found the SIV to be very similar to HIV-1. The theory was that hunters in Africa hunted and ate chimpanzees which is infected with this virus, and the SIV which came in contact with humans, began to mutate or adapt, and became HIV. If you read the literature on HIV, one of the reasons why scientists are having a hard time finding a vaccine or cure for HIV, is that the virus mutate very quickly to overcome any kind of vaccine or cure they came up with.
This is what the scientists are fearful of virus in animals that are yet to attack humans. Virus is good at mutating or adapting itself, and thus when humans come in close contact with animals, it may mutate and infect humans. One example was SARS virus. The virus does not kill the civet cats, but when humans come in contact with them (they eat civet cats in China), the virus infect humans, mutate, and became a very infectious and deadly disease.
Now the scientists are worried about the bird flu. In the beginning, the H5N1 virus was not able to cross from birds to humans. Now some strain are able to do that. We are lucky that the bird flu virus has yet to mutate or adapt to cross from humans to humans. When that happened, it is going to be deadlier than SARS. -
Hmmm...where did you get the stats. I thought for SARS, the mortality rate is 10% for those under 65, and up to 50% for those over 65.Originally posted by deathbait:except, sars was hardly serious.
low mortality rate of 6 percent for the average healthy human, which is only slightly higher than the common flu.
Much like terrorism, the main threat of sars was the fear that came after it appeared.
It is true that flu kills 22,000 in the US every year, 400,000 worldwide, but SARS is a far greater potential threat, because of its higher mortality rate even though in most cases it is not as highly infectious as in superspreaders.
Perhaps now scientists are more familiar with SARS and able to contain it if it appears again. But whenever there is a new disease, the potential for it to be a killer is very high. For example, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the first world war. Estimates vary but some believe as many as half a billion people were infected of which 30 million died.
This is what makes bird flu so worrisome; if it mutates and gain the ability spread from humans to humans, it could be the next big killer disease. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
from the article:
Mortality by age group as of 8 May 2003 is below 1% for people aged 24 or younger, 6% for those 25 to 44, 15% in those 45 to 64 and more than 50% for those over 65.
actually, whenever there is a new disease, the potential killing power is low. It's just that most of them pass by unnoticed. The occasional failed mutation(which kills ppl fast) gets the most notice because they actually kill their host.
Worrying about new strains of disease is a losing game. You never know when the next fatal one will come, and even if you do, prevention can only take place AFTER the fact. Which is why solving existent problems should be at the top of our priority lists. We can deal with the uncertain future when it comes.
Most of you have probably heard this before, but it's a poor virus/bacteria that kills it's host. -
If a sickness in the world is cured, it is a cause for celebration. If you talk about rampant sex in this world, sadly it is their lifestyle choices and one shouldn't judge wat they should do or not do.
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They are two different issues. Surely you do not hope that the bird flu mutates to solve the overpopulation problem in the world?