Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure

kryonD writes "Researchers believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do. While most of the community is still hesitant to comment on this until it passes peer review, initial results show that their method attacks and kills ALL variations of the virus. A fast track through the FDA could have one of the world's leading problems licked in less than a decade."

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Re:but...

[w1ll0w]

Doesn't mean they are truly Christian. You are right thought that some people will think that they are messing with a God sent plague, but that's nonsense. I hope this turns out to be a cure for aids and I'm a Christian. I'll be praying for a positive outcome on this.

Re:That Risk is Unfounded

[mshurpik]

>E.g. HIV causes AIDS?

Does HIV actually cause AIDS? The human immune system is a chemical and virus killing machine. I can't imagine a worse fate for a virus than to go up against 520 million years of vertebrate evolution. And yet the HIV virus does this and more - it actually disables and removes the immune system with surgical precision.

Wow. And it evolved within the last twenty years. And it only infects gays and black people. And it doesn't kill. And it's easily cleaned up with bleach. And it removes stains from carpets, takes the kids to school, and does your taxes by February.

Why cure HIV? It seems to do just about everything.

Re:Raised eyebrows

[John Little John]

There are a slew of programs that the government could divert money from to pay for this. You chose to bring up the Iraq war. There is a segment of the population who will use any topic to bring up the Iraq war/how Dubya was deputized by Satan himself. Just look at all the ridiculous comments about the war/Bush brought up in the context of the Coretta Scott King funeral. The comment on bringing the Iraq war into this discussion is completely on point. The point is that the Iraq war speaks to more issues and is a much more explosive topic than your simple comment on its costs, and because everyone has strong feelings on the Iraq war one way or another, you are implicitly diverting the focus from the article. I mean, it is obvious. The first response to your comment was not about the costs, but about the fact you brought the war up.