AIDS cure possibly found?
http://health.lifestyle.yahoo.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=16682&news_channel_id=1028&channel_id=1028
but i figure it's an interesting read.
wats interesting is that the first cure for a certain cancer was also in the bone marrow.
just thought i'd share
yes it is indeed an isolated, single case.An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
but i figure it's an interesting read.
wats interesting is that the first cure for a certain cancer was also in the bone marrow.
just thought i'd share
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didnt realize, cuz of too many tabs... will request a move
ty for not flaming
very interesting, I hope it leads to a cure.
Haha, you are terrible.
Seriously though, this is great news. Be great if this does lead to something more.
bolding and italics mine.
source: www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/health/14hiv.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
i remain skeptical that anyone with power wants there to be a cute for aids.. but hell. i'm paranoid. it's not like people want.. money.. or anything.
First, AIDS isn't a virus, it's an advanced stage of infection.
The testing for HIV does not sound accurate or reliable at all. The test doesn't find the virus, but the presence anitbodies that would react to proteins similar to the virus. And many of those tests fail, only to be repeated until they don't fail. Many false positives occur in Africa, where the testing procedures they use there, would not accurately determine infection in other parts of the world.
In many of the cases where someone was "cured" of HIV/AIDS, they probably never had it to begin with and were simply taken off the medication and regained their health. The man in this article was taken off his often fatal medication and treatment after the transplant.
Also, no one dies from AIDS...but the complications from AIDS. And, even the article above states this, the treatment of HIV/AIDS is itself often fatal. The body's immune system can no longer fight illness.
I think the real AIDS scare is the lack of information and understanding we as a soceity have about it. The people who are tested are the ones that believe they have it. Once someone is falsely diagnosed with HIV...what steps are taken to confirm it? What happens to a non-infected person who is given treatment? You can't listen to the media.
It doesn't make sense to me.