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HIV Transmission Captured On Video
Technology Review has promising news on the AIDS front: researchers have captured HIV T cell transmission on video. The upshot could be new avenues of treatment. "The resulting images and videos show that, once an infected cell adheres to a healthy cell, the HIV proteins... migrate within minutes to the contact site. At that point, large packets of virus are simultaneously released by the infected cell and internalized by the recipient cell. This efficient mode of transfer is a distinct pathway from the cell-free infection that has been the focus of most prior HIV studies, and reveals another mechanism by which the virus evades immune responses that can neutralize free virus particles within the body."
It's been caught on video many times before - and sold.
Scary stuff, really.
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The blurb does kind of make it sound that way, the third sentence in the actual science article cites a 1993 paper: "In vitro, infection with cell-associated HIV can be thousands fold more efficient than infection with cell-free virus."
Due to AIDS.
It somehow reminds me of that whole "Anonymous" thing from 4chan: mindless and deadly.
I'm gay and infected you insensitive clod!
I disagree. This assumption of everyone being racist/homofobic/etc. until they "prove" that they aren't by belonging to the group in question is offensive to me as a nonracist, etc..
The joke was the same regardless of who said it because the end result for us readers is the same. If it is something that can make us laugh, it is good. If not, it isn't.
And for the record, I think it was a pretty sucky joke regardless of the poster's health. -1 is appropriate
No, if it killed instantly then people wouldn't need to be careful not to get it because it would be extremely rare (unless it had a very common transmission vector which it didn't kill).
Blog postings from an anonymous nobody with no medical or biological education and training whatsoever. Yeah. That sounds credible.
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Then put your money where your mouth is - infect yourself willingly with HIV and don't take any treatments for it.
Surely if it's harmless as cretins like Hogan say, then there's no reason for you not to do it and thus prove to the world that the HIV/AIDS connection is completely false. You would certainly win fame, prestige, riches beyond your wildest dreams for exposing it, right?
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
Ah, the old "you first" defense; The shield of the coward. That's okay. I'll play along.
The person that I replied to was mixing up the usage of HIV and AIDS. Every time he said AIDS, he should have said HIV for his sentences to make sense. People often use the terms interchangeably but they are different things. HIV is a virus and it's that virus that infects people. AIDS is a syndrome that HIV infected people can, and usually do, develop sometime after infection. AIDS isn't transmissible any more than depression, dementia, or mental illness is.
When the poster made statements such as "What this all boils down to is AIDS has found a new way to use the cells it hijacks", what he meant to say was "What this all boils down to is HIV has found a new way to use the cells it hijacks."
I agree. No one has made any such claim in this thread that I am aware of.
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