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Man Cures Himself of HIV?
IZ Reloaded writes "A 25 yr old British man could be the first person in the world to have cured himself of the deadly HIV virus. He was diagnosed HIV positive in 2002. After another test done the following year, he stunned doctors when his test results turned negative. He is now a wanted man after researchers and doctors want him to come back for further testing but he has so far refused. Experts think he could have something in his immune system that may help in producing vaccines against HIV."
Lets infect him again and see if he can go 2 for 2. -Monty
Maybe he should patent himself, his DNA and other things ;)
Does this guy also have a skeleton laced with Adamantium...?
They have had those for a while , they are called condoms (Though not an 100% defence)
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster proves once again that evolution does not happen by chance! This man must be a pirate, or a Pastafarian at a minimum!
Ramen
Willing females wanted to have unprotected sex with this man in order to increase human kernel stability and eventually preserve the human race. Only respond with picture, please.
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Are you saying that if you could help scientists to cure a disease that's killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by devoting a big chunk of your time, you WOULDNT do it?
Hey man, didn't you read the GP!? He wants a normal life. Can't you understand that watching 10-12 hours of TV a week, working some shitty job, and breeding is more important than curing a disease which will destroy millions of lives?
He's already tried.
Well, damn, I'm impressed.
Perhaps we should hit him with a dose of Anthrax and see if his immune system can whip up a cure for that, too while we are at it...
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He's a witch!!!
No research necessary -- the answer is in plain sight: "A 25 yr old British man could be the first people...
Clearly this man is more than one person, judging by the use of the word "people" when referring to an individual. Perhaps when the man was first tested it was his second person they tested. Upon subsequent tests, it's his first person. Case closed! Another fine caper solved by ScuttleMonkey.
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But does he weigh more than a duck?
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A PINT! That's nearly a whole armful.
I got better...
Upon performing further tests, they subsequently returned results of positive, negative, flegative, bogative, rogative and spigative.
My other processor is big-endian.
A 25 yr old British man could be the first people in the world to have cured himself of the deadly HIV virus.
Now, curing HIV is all well and good but I think we're overlooking the real achievement here. These man - with no aid from the scientific establishment - have become more than one person!
.evom ton seod gis eht
or maybe the virus is just using the Sony rootkit
You ever donated blood? :)
Interesting. If it is in the disease's best interest to keep the host alive for maximum proliferation, than with each evolutionary cycle, the virus will protect the host more and more.
This means that, within time, virusses will evolve into the Means for Man to achieve Immortality in some kind of twisted mutual-benefit relationship. (mutualism)
I should write Science Fiction books.
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working some shitty job, and breeding is more important than curing a disease
Given that he contracted the HIV from his "44-year-old HIV-positive partner, Juan Gomez", I'd say breeding is not that high on his list of priorities.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
He's waiting to patent his genes first.
He's obviously Legion.
:) wheres the mod points when you need them!?
I bought a NIC card earlier with money that I got from the ATM machine with my PIN number, so I could get on Slashdot to read about the HIV virus that causes AIDS syndrome. I'm using GNU Unix and running the KDE environment on my P4 pentium processor.
Clearly God must smile upon this slightly more intelligently designed being.
I say if there is someone alive now who survived the plague way back when then we should be studying him for his immortability rather than his HIV resistance.
liqbase
Fine, you have the freedom to do so. You just don't have the freedom to not do so. :)
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
I'm sorry, but your immune system was released under the GPL, and you must release any modifications.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
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The PTO has just granted a man a patent for his T Cell structure... he has partnered with Sony to prevent unlicensed use.
it comes in pints?
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/. is what happens when geeks talk. get used to it.
HIV positive...HIV positive not....HIV positive....HIV positive not...
Don't worry, there's no 'arm in giving blood!
sorry, sorry...
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
This reminds me of the old Charlton Heston movie Omega Man.
Now that this guy's blood holds the cure for a plauge, I wonder if he is going to go around beating albino marxist hippys?
Hey, everybody knows you can't give blood if you've been in the UK for more than 3 months...
It doesn't mean they don't try breeding every night, it's just that he does not get pregnant...
Are you crazy!
If I had the cure to HIV running in my veins, I'd first get legal advice on how to best financially exploit the situation.
Come on dude, we all watched Spielberg's E.T. We know how things turn out when scientists get involved!
Perhaps his partner Juan Gomez is the one we should be looking at. He's the elusive #2!
1) Contract HIV
2) Have lots of unprotected sex with Juan Gomez
3) Profit!!!
Is this what they mean when they say the GPL is "viral"?
Come on, it's not that complicated:
He started out in the first person, thinking "I'm disease-free!". But then the doctor told him in the second person, "nope, you've got HIV." Finally, the news tells us in the third person, "well, he doesn't have HIV now...".
Obviously, we've got a lot left to learn about how HIV is transmitted from person to person. At least he's not as tense now as he was in the past.
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