Potential AIDS cure
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-01-16-a...cure-for-aids/
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I can see condom sales falling in the next few years if this works out...
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Just as a note, this is NOT a cure for HIV (but still a treatment for it). HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS is just a condition based on the number of T cells.
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AIDS is a very peculiar virus ... easily killed, but fairly unique in its attack. It certainly is of interest in the sense that, well, "maybe this is how the cancer virus(es) work(s)." (Does the uncontrolled cell growth of cancer have anything to do with, say, warts and moles?) Research into ways of breaking the reproductive cycle of such a thing are interesting ... of course, what we don't know yet is whether there are some other life-critical processes in, say, the human body that would be similarly disrupted. But we should find out.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/.../13/moles.html I have no clue how this can be, but it is interesting. Also note that moles tend to be seen in a bad light because melanoma is seen as associated with them. Actually, only certain types of moles have a chance to transform into melanoma. |
What I personally notice about warts and moles is that they are characterized by "atypical" cell-growth that seems to be largely uncontrolled. Skin cells that ought to produce a smooth surface and nothing more, instead are induced to produce a lump. My instinct, therefore, is that if one type of (e.g...) virus is able to produce such a change, other things out there just might be able to do more.
AIDS, as I said, is a weak virus .. easily destroyed, and limited in its ability to spread itself .. but nevertheless it has a profoundly disruptive effect on the system that's responsible for defense of the body. It would therefore be interesting to discover even a "brutish" form of intervention that could be targeted against it, because maybe it would then be possible to target other cells that have been "kidnapped." |
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I thougt I heard recently that HIV could be managed indefinately with a cocktail of medecines? Not a great life, of course, and ending treatment means AIDS can take hold but I'm sure I read that people treated correctly had "normal" life expectancy nowadays at least in some cases?
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As with many diseases, aids could be cured in a single generation if people quit passing it to others. Hoping for cures from medicine is only a stop gap solution. The example of TB is what will happen if we treat aids like some are doing with TB. There have been a few hundred cases of totally drug resistant TB in countries. TB is much more easy to transmit to others. We know how the aids virus is transmitted. Early scares of mosquitoes and blood splatter in eyes have shown that aids isn't very viral so far.
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If you become a politician I would like to see how you would actually be able to do what you want. I think that you need to do much more to eradicate this disease than you think. TB is more contagious, but not that contagious. You need prolonged close contact with a person with an active, untreated infection to get TB. There are also TB masks that you can wear in case you cannot avoid such exposure. |
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