Posted by
samzenpus
on from the super-soldier dept.
Trokair writes "China Daily reports that researcher Tuofu Zhu has discovered two women in an HIV Research program that are immune to the disorder via a mutant gene."
Re:Tell me it ain't so !
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grammar+fascist
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It won't, because a great number of Catholics, Mormons, and Born-again Christians (at least) are absolutely immune from it. (Barring tainted blood transfusions, but those are statistically insignificant.)
AIDS advocacy group: YOU COULD BE NEXT!
Us: Nope, never.
Go ahead, liberal pinko commie moderators. Call this flamebait. You know it's true.
why this is a news?
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bikerguy99
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now, pa-lease, can anyone explain to me why this is even on slashdot - low hitech news day? I think we shoulda've learned by now that a vast majority of biomedical news is trash, simple as that, trash. Overblown, misrepresented and misunderstood, period.
Re:Tell me it ain't so !
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strider44
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Umm you know that AIDS isn't a terminal desease don't you?
Re:Tell me it ain't so !
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cluckshot
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Some times the point is not what people think
HIV is a very unique disease with a most difficult set of transmission routes requiring definite HUMAN intervention for these to be achieved. It is a disease which does not need to exist and would not exist without deliberate HUMAN IGNORANCE on an extreme scale. It would go extinct almost immediately if not for these deliberate human interventions.What is more these human ignorance vectors are all quite well known. There is little doubt about how it may be stopped so lets quit accusing the failures of drug delivery etc for the problem. The arrogant human stupidity that is spreading this disease needs all of our attention.
If I were to suggest that playing in the sewer was lots of fun and simply tell the kids that putting on rubber boots created "safe sewer play" equipment you would find me a dispicable person when I lead a booted class of kids into the sewers to play. There are activities and behaviors that are inherently dangerous and destructive. Making counter argument does not change the facts that these are dangerous.
Every time HIV spreads we find people engaging in behaviors which we know spread the disease. Yes I am a medical expert on this! Yes I know all the counter arguments. They have millions of people dying! I know that stopping the transmission works. HIV patients need quarrantined (home bound etc) for their own protection from secondary diseases. Even treating them in the Hospital is a threat to their safety. They will not spread HIV and we don't need to treat them for the horrid illnesses they get when their failed immune systems contact the general world about them. Suggesting otherwise is to deny them the general protection of reverse isolation quarrantine that we do for other immuno compromised patients such as chemo therapy and transplant patients.
-- Never Politically Correct ~ I prefer the facts
If you don't like what I say, get a life, or comment yourself.
Re:Tell me it ain't so !
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freqres
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We'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble, G.I. George is there!! G.I. George, a real American hero, G.I. George is there.
Now if only Osama would start wearing a blue hood and start talking with a hissy lisp. Also get rid of that unpronounceable Arab word Al-quasadea and start calling the evil-do'er organization COBRA.
GI Joe is the codename for American's daring,
highly trained special mission force.
It's purpose, to defend human freedom against Cobra-
a ruthless, terrorist organization determined to rule the world.
-- Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
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It won't, because a great number of Catholics, Mormons, and Born-again Christians (at least) are absolutely immune from it. (Barring tainted blood transfusions, but those are statistically insignificant.)
AIDS advocacy group: YOU COULD BE NEXT!
Us: Nope, never.
Go ahead, liberal pinko commie moderators. Call this flamebait. You know it's true.
That said, it's great that they may have a lead.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
now, pa-lease, can anyone explain to me why this is even on slashdot - low hitech news day? I think we shoulda've learned by now that a vast majority of biomedical news is trash, simple as that, trash. Overblown, misrepresented and misunderstood, period.
Umm you know that AIDS isn't a terminal desease don't you?
Some times the point is not what people think
HIV is a very unique disease with a most difficult set of transmission routes requiring definite HUMAN intervention for these to be achieved. It is a disease which does not need to exist and would not exist without deliberate HUMAN IGNORANCE on an extreme scale. It would go extinct almost immediately if not for these deliberate human interventions.What is more these human ignorance vectors are all quite well known. There is little doubt about how it may be stopped so lets quit accusing the failures of drug delivery etc for the problem. The arrogant human stupidity that is spreading this disease needs all of our attention.
If I were to suggest that playing in the sewer was lots of fun and simply tell the kids that putting on rubber boots created "safe sewer play" equipment you would find me a dispicable person when I lead a booted class of kids into the sewers to play. There are activities and behaviors that are inherently dangerous and destructive. Making counter argument does not change the facts that these are dangerous.
Every time HIV spreads we find people engaging in behaviors which we know spread the disease. Yes I am a medical expert on this! Yes I know all the counter arguments. They have millions of people dying! I know that stopping the transmission works. HIV patients need quarrantined (home bound etc) for their own protection from secondary diseases. Even treating them in the Hospital is a threat to their safety. They will not spread HIV and we don't need to treat them for the horrid illnesses they get when their failed immune systems contact the general world about them. Suggesting otherwise is to deny them the general protection of reverse isolation quarrantine that we do for other immuno compromised patients such as chemo therapy and transplant patients.
Never Politically Correct ~ I prefer the facts If you don't like what I say, get a life, or comment yourself.
We'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble, G.I. George is there!! G.I. George, a real American hero, G.I. George is there.
Now if only Osama would start wearing a blue hood and start talking with a hissy lisp. Also get rid of that unpronounceable Arab word Al-quasadea and start calling the evil-do'er organization COBRA.
GI Joe is the codename for American's daring,
highly trained special mission force.
It's purpose, to defend human freedom against Cobra-
a ruthless, terrorist organization determined to rule the world.
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception