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13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly To AIDS Patients Growing On Trees
An anonymous reader writes Researchers have pinpointed the environmental source of fungal infections that have been sickening HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California for decades. It literally grows on trees. The discovery is based on the science project of a 13-year-old girl, who spent the summer gathering soil and tree samples from areas around Los Angeles hardest hit by infections of the fungus named Cryptococcus gattii.
Seems like a good plan.
I did'nt know there were AIDS patients growing on trees...
AIDS patients grow on trees now?
Fortunately, there are but a few AIDS patients growing on trees.
Thirteen year olds have access to the results of genetic testing and do basic analysis on them. The tools that are available for people to do science is amazing. It is a good time to be alive. Now if we could only find a way to convince the politicians and parents to let teachers share these insights without forcing students to sit in chairs and be lectured at all day.
Yeah, it's people who have AIDS that spread it, not people with asymptomatic HIV, right?
I mean, I get that you're just trying to be funny by being a shitty person, but could you pretend to be a shitty person who also isn't completely ignorant?
Why am I not surprised at this kind of comment on slashdot. The only thing missing is a jab at women and H1Bs to round it off.
Funny, gays weren't the ones who originally contracted the disease, nor are they the only ones who carry it. Any human can carry it, and it was traced back to cross breeding humans with monkeys decades ago. Blame the wierd eastern countries, not gay people you arrogant fuck.
Because the incurable disease comes after the infectious period begins, numbnuts.
I'm sure you have magic moron powers that will let you detect people infected with HIV who don't yet have AIDS, but the rest of us depend on science and medicine to solve health problems.
So, this fungus, it's only deadly to AIDS patients growing on trees? What about normal aids patients?
2) Disseminate a fungus which grows on trees so we can target those left-wing tree-huggers. Check.
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Damnit - I forgot the part where we nuke the whales. Oh, well - nothing's perfect.
Stories like these always have a common thread: the parent is actually generating the ideas and likely doing the work and providing expertise. This is no different:
"...longtime collaborator and UCLA infectious disease specialist Scott Filler, M.D., whose daughter Elan..."
It is like someone saying this 12 year old is an amazing football player, but then you learn later that their father Pele takes all the shots.
Sounds like a great way to get rid of the Flu or Cold.
Oh shit, you mean there's gonna be something bad coming out of Scotland too? /sheep
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It seems that you don't realise that you are replying to a post that is mocking anti-gay propaganda.
Except that killing off people with a disease tends to make people who have the disease a good bit quieter about it, which is harmful to eradication. If you want to throw down blame, it would be those that didn't do anything to stop it because it was a disease that seemed to only affect socially undesirably groups.
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I think we can be 100% at this point that if we had spend the money and time we have on trying to develop a cure, on prevention, detection, and education that it would of did a whole lot more good.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Someone pointed this out last time: Africa. Hello retarded AC? Are you there? I can't hear your answer on that.
"our" methods have caused huge reductions in new infections. Your methods at work in places in subsaharan Africa(until recently at least) have led to ignorance, violence, and huge spikes in infections as people try to home remedy HIV away.
Oh, right, so your plan is to implement the (unreliable, which you'd know if you weren't a moron) HIV test across the entire population, in order to commit mass murder for the high crime of having caught a disease.
Please kill yourself next time you catch a cold.
LOL, we already did that 50 years ago to keep flayzernax and friends in burgers and fries 50 years ago.
Killing those infected with HIV would contribute to the spread of the virus by eliminating voluntary participation in HIV tests.
We have spent a ton of money on prevent education and detection. And it has done a lot of good.
Infections are way down.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/new...
English is a naturally ambiguous language, and there are two gramatically correct parsings of that headline.
It's a bit like "fruit flies like a banana"
I have not seen any AIDS patients growing on trees so this should not be an issue. :-)
The truth shall set you free!
Only two? I think that grammatically any of the three nouns could be the one that's growing on trees. The 13-year-old growing on trees is even more semantically problematic than the AIDS patients.
user@host ~$ 13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly To AIDS Patients Growing On Trees
13-Year-Old: command not found.
Seems that 13-Year-Old has done it witout being commanded. Interesting...
How about this, kill yourself.
You mean all the fat bitches driving gas guzzling SuV's and supporting the industries that are lobbying against any productive advancement of the human race, like you.
Fucking shills :(
Captcha: Luxuries, because their your god given right, amiright? sad fact is we could all live in luxury if it werent for greedy shelfish fearful assholes making decisions for the betterment of the rest of us.
Let nature take its motherfucking course you piece of shit.
Subject verb agreement kills that parsing.
Since you post the same thing the other guy posted above, and since my time is too limited to keep reading this kind of... thing, let me point you to this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
which explains why the easy way, like you and others say it, could mean severe dangers to mankind.
In short, no, your idea would not work. And we are soft of heart. We are prudent, sensible. Also, in spite of us being soft of heart, please be aware there has been some persecution against heartless individuals in the past.
Perhaps it would be safer to learn to pose as a normal human.
How many AIDS patients grow on trees?
Assuming that society takes the moral hit and people buy into the concept by not hiding their infections from testing (basically society as a whole accepts self-sacrifice based on a test)...
Most infectious type of people are not discovered till it is too late. This is a very slow virus. You could be a carrier for months to years and be a vector without showing up positive in a test. Killing off an AIDS victim is kind of pointless, for the virus, the host is well past the diminishing returns curve. Even one that has tested positive for HIV.
Even if you do find and kill off every HIV patient, it won't kill off the virus. Its origins are from other mammals (this version being chimps). Unless you intend to kill everything that has this virus or a potential parent of it. At which point you would also start targeting other currently non-lethal immune system attacking viruses.
So the road above is fairly stupid, comes primarily from ignorance & fear, and in the end, doesn't work. If people don't commit to killing themselves based on a test, the above will actually make the HIV/AIDS situation worse as it will go underground.
The better solution is to let the people live and use them to find a cure. This way, we not only solve the current situation, but also similar mutations in the future. By letting people live, we have already discovered some folks who are immune to AIDS!
Wow, way to completely miss the point of the story. Who the hell said anything about sterilizing the planet? If anything, its just a risk factor for people with compromised immune systems. That is, people with AIDS or other immune disorders, undergoing chemotherapy etc, those people shouldn't go walking around in the woods in California.
Perhaps you are the one who should be checking yourself for mental defects........
You can test for HIV, but the patient becomes a vector for infection prior to the test working.
The article hinted at containing and controlling the pathogen and the ecosystem. IMO a wholesale waste of effort for a few people who, really are more of a symptom of our medicine and cultural practices. No they don't deserve to die, and yes it's good they know not to go to California, but that is not how the article nor the slashdot summary was spun.
Funny, gays weren't the ones who originally contracted the disease, nor are they the only ones who carry it. Any human can carry it, and it was traced back to cross breeding humans with monkeys decades ago. Blame the wierd eastern countries, not gay people you arrogant fuck.
Scientists still say AIDS started because somebody had sex with a monkey. Word? After all these researches, the best explanation that you came up with – nobody fucks monkeys and people, you idiot. -Dave Chappelle
Bullshit. It's believed it infected humans because they *ate* the monkeys, you freak.
There is no widespread practice of beastiality within the countries where HIV developed. Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
There's a fungus among us.
Table-ized A.I.
"Wouldn't it be easier to get rid of the people carrying the incurable disease rather than trying to cure it?"
Well, no.
First because the people that have AIDS are not carriers. The carriers are the people who have not yet (sometimes will never) developed symptoms. Those are almost never detected.
"And maybe we should start discouraging people who are not genetically compatible from breeding so as to reduce the number of people who suffer from crippling defects."
So you are in favor of a law mandating mixed marriages then?
I mean, come on, all these inbred 'white' people breeding back into the tree every generation is not going to do us any good.
How are you going to find them all to get rid of them? Round up everybody and force them to submit to HIV testing? Or are you going to wait until they voluntarily report themselves to the death squad?
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There is no widespread practice of beastiality within the countries where HIV developed. Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
It doesn't have to be widespread. All it takes is one instance.
Current operating hypothesis is that it came from improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact between SIV-infected apes and ordinary humans, allowing the virus to jump hosts.
Probably somebody cut themselves while butchering infected bush meat. Although, such accidents must have happened numerous times throughout history. Why is HIV only around now?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Killing them is barbaric, but I wonder if a quarantine would not have done some good.
That said, STIs are pretty much one of the main reasons why homosexuals were looked down on in the first place. If you read about ancient views of it, you'll see that every other mention talks about them getting sick.
Well, stuck something else there then, like a vegetable from the fridge, or something artificial you bought from a sex shop.
makes me think of the Ricky Gervais skit. Either you caught AIDS from having sex with a monkey... or you cut yourself while preparing monkey Yeah, I was totally eating monkey... etc etc etc le lulz
For other STDs, public health authorities engage in contract tracking. But AIDs has lobbiests. If the syphilitic can't get it together to buy a congress critter or two, why is that AIDs patient's problem?
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Yeah, that'll be my response to the next time that I choose to do something that clearly risks further spreading a pandemic that has killed millions, so my dick can feel good for a few minutes.
It's your fault, society. You should have pre-emptively done something about the consequences of my actions.
(Yeah yeah, "-1, Troll". Fire away at facts. FWIW, I don't primarily blame gays. I blame the heterosexual pre-murderers in Africa--regardless of skin color.)
"There's a humongous fungus among us." -- Zoidberg
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
I can't believe this disinformation still continues, especially on Slashdot.
So, let's go over this one more time.
HIV DOES NOT CAUSE AIDS.
HIV DOES NOT KILL PEOPLE.
It's the medical establishment that has convinced people with HIV that they need to kill themselves with toxic drugs that destroy the liver, kidneys and pancreas.
13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly To AIDS Patients Growing On Trees
This statement states that AIDS victims grow on trees.
Should not the statement read?
13-Year-Old finds fungus growing on trees deadly to AIDS Patients.
HIV/AIDS patients won't infect you if you don't fuck them.
So make them mandatory. Problem, comrade?
My father in the mid-south had a 3 year long struggle with this infection. It has left him a completely different person (three tumors in his brain). This is a nasty disease that was previously sub-tropical and is making its way into North America. The treatment is really nasty.
Amphotericin B has terrible common side effects and the nurses had a nickname for it that was something like "Ampho the Terrible."
Flucytosine is also used and it has a dramatic effect on the mental state of the patient.
During the time my father was taking these medications he suffered kidney failure, massive weight loss, constant nausea and vomiting, poor impulse control (to the point that it was like he had no filter to stop him from saying or doing anything). I'm very glad my father is still alive but even two years removed he still is suffering the effects of this illness.
So a 13-yr old finds a fungus on a tree that kills Aids Patients, or kills Patients with Aids, or just Patients in general and the kid lived !?
So the next story will be about the fungus can kill Global Human Climate Warming.
Ha ha. What a knee slapper.
Probably somebody cut themselves while butchering infected bush meat. Although, such accidents must have happened numerous times throughout history. Why is HIV only around now?
Because the people who got it were only traveling around the world on airplanes now.
Also because it spread through gay anal sex and IV drugs.
English is a naturally ambiguous language
What an odd thing to say. It's not any more or less ambiguous than almost any other language.
You do, however, need to apply a modicum of effort to make sure that whatever word slop you just barfed on the page is readable to others. Slashdot "editors" notoriously refuse to do so, though.
sic transit gloria mundi
Would "13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly to AIDS Patients Grows On Trees" be wrong? IMHO that clearly expresses what is meant, i.e. she finds that the fungus grows on trees. The ambiguous headline - at best - expresses that she finds the fungus as it is growing (on trees). The difference is subtle: One is a generalized result, the other is a data point. (Again, not a native speaker.)
Many Arab states are doing exactly as you suggest and claim to have no AIDs. Cuba is pretty close. We'll see how it turns out.
I'm predicting many unexplained deaths of 'lingering illness' (in the Arab world anyhow). They all use the prison definition of gay. Only the catchers are gay, the top fags are just normal Arabs.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
It came from eating monkeys you dumb shit, not fucking them.
You realize the huge fraction of HIV/AIDS in heterosexuals? This is not due to gays pretending to be straight to fit in, but because normal missionary style heterosexual sex can also transmit the virus.
Sorry but your mom was begging for it, and without protection. So there you are.
I am an African American (not by choice)
Really? Not by choice? Weird. Where I live, we all get to choose our skincolor right up to our birthdate. After that it's set in stone, though. But thanks for clearing that up for me. Otherwise I'd have thought you'd volunteered or something.
Oh, and by the way? Get help. You obviously cought Trollitis from a tree that snuggled up close.
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The virus that causes HIV has been around a very, very long time. The public only became aware of it due to homophobes screaming publically about the "gay desease" in the early 1980s. Since then science has come to realize the virus was present in wildlife at least long enough for late 18th century bodies they exhumed to have been infected with it due to eating infected bush meat.
In reality the virus has probably existed in some form longer than modern humans have. Society as a whole just wasn't aware of it until it got press coverage. The same thing goes for Ebola and its buddy Marburg. They were always present in bats but no one talked about it until it was deemed newsworthy by western media.
And you can get it without sex just as well.
Just for the record, this is not correct. While it is true that there is an eclipse period during which testing is not useful (as indeed, there is an eclipse period for any viral infection), for HIV that window is currently very small.
See:
-- The Genesis project? What's that?
There is a lot of joking about sheep fucking in Scotland, but I don't think it's practiced much. And even if it is, it does not turn people into pure sheep only fuckers, who don't even get hard from a woman. Though there is such a thing as jaded, too much of women or too much pussy may make you lose your excitement over it after a while, and then something brand new and fresh and exciting, like sheep booty, may still get you excited, so it's all very complicated. Getting bored of the same old same old booty is what keeps the US divorce rate over 50%, nothing else. I mean job and economic stress helps at it, but it does comes down to sexual appetite and getting bored. Then you get crazy things like threesomes and swinger parties, where the couples are not jealous and can stick together for longer, but usually it happens by a jealous exclusive couple catching one of the partners cheating, and then it's over. Cheating cheating cheating. Why you consider it cheating? Ask to come along next time instead, and save your marriage, especially if you still got kids at home dependent on a stable family in their most vulnerable and sensitive teen years.
IDGAF about burgers either. I'm a halfass vegetarian, meaning I eat burgers sometimes, but most of the time, not. Burgers are too much of a luxury item, I prefer frying my own rice instead, it's pretty cheap. A whole lot of the world survives on a cup of rice a day, and I'm blessed that I get many cups a day, and can add things like carrots and spices. In Indonesia - or old Dutch Indies colonies - , for instance, a country that usually does not show up on the spotlight of top population charts like China, India, US, they have pushed the limit of rice farming to the brinks, up to the mountaintops and hill tops, there is nowhere left to push farming rice. There is lots of population that needs food every day, and people can't help themselves, like you can't issue a presidential decree to people to stop fucking. There should be a holiday, like there is Earth Day, etc, called fuck free day where the whole population does not fuck or masturbate or fuck that day, just to prove they are able to do it. And of course some won't celebrate. As in, you idiots keep your no fucking day, me, I'm gonna pop a new baby as fast as I can while there is free welfare money to take care of the baby.
Hey, at least the AIDS infected homos are not consuming welfare money with their sexual exuberance, the rest of us don't have to pay for them not being able to keep their dicks out of each other's pants.
Isn't everything deadly to AIDS patients?
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
always be careful with bush meat.
one wrong move, and a portion of your paycheck will be commandeered for 18 years.
I got confused for a moment and thought I was browsing reddit.
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Incidentally, "improper animal handling procedures resulting in blood-to-blood contact" may include chopping up an infected animal for dinner (as most people envisage it), or digging bits of splattered bat out of the radiator of your car or from your clothing after the bat has become road kill. Which is certainly what worries us and our medical advisers as we travel near to infected areas.
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Seems gays made their own mess by causing AIDS to be identified with homosexuality. It took a kid dying of AIDS (Ryan White) to get the public to realize that it wasn't just a gay disease. Some asshats had even beat the kid to death because they assumed that he had to be gay.
It is so sad that the general public can be so stupid. Simple logic says that AIDS has nothing to do with homosexuality. Consider that AIDS is a crossover virus from apes. That means that a gay disease was prevalent among apes. That means there must be a sizable gay ape population.
What about feline HIV? I don't know any gay cats, but there must be a sizable gay cat population. So is nature punishing gay animals and it took until 1980 for God to get around to punishing human homosexuality although homosexuality has existed for thousands of years.