eneva, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization has issued a dire warning to health professionals worldwide alerting them to the possibility the new flu virus could combine with HIV resulting in air-spreadable AIDS!!!

Individuals infected with HIV are already at risk of contracting the new, highly contagious flu because their immune systems are compromised by HIV.

Difference between viruses and bacteria

The main difference between viruses and bacteria is that viruses - such as the flu - are packets of genetic material and cannot survive on their own, while bacteria are single-celled organisms that can.

Bacteria take in nutrients, expel waste, grow, and reproduce (multiply). Viruses need a host cell (a bacterial, plant, human or animal cell) in order to reproduce. When viruses (like flu) reproduce, they often encounter other viruses inside a host cell. When this happens, the two viruses in the same cell can mix their genetic material. This process is called "re-association" or re-combining; it's how new strains of viruses are formed and how viruses adapt and remain virulent. This recombination is quite common and is why Flu vaccines must be changed every year.

If the new flu mixes with HIV

Flu has been around for a long time. Most of us have been exposed at one time or another to one or more strains of flu thus most of us - even folks with HIV - can usually fight-off prior versions of flu.

The danger, says the WHO, is that none of us have ever encountered this new strain of flu because it has never appeared before.

I wouldn't get to excited about it recombining with AIDS as lots of flu virus have encountered HIV and not combined for "air-born" HIV.

Originally posted by rattan1
reply to post by YouAreDreaming

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I wouldn't get to excited about it recombining with AIDS as lots of flu virus have encountered HIV and not combined for "air-born" HIV.

I am actually at the point where I have started to believe that anything is possible. After all scientist can't explain everything.....who could have predicted the Swine flue. The probability of Swine flue mixing with HIV may be dim but not impossible.

Originally posted by Common Good
Ruh Roh.
This doesnt sound good Johny.
NOT GOOD AT ALL.

so all that HIV needed to spread to people without sexual contact was an airborne virus? Kind of crazy

Edit- If I am way off, help me understand. Thanks

[edit on 3-5-2009 by Common Good] [/quote

If you just read what Turner Radio said, then you're not off.

But, if you read what WHO actually said,Turner Radio is way off

At least the way I'm reading it. There's never any indication that HIV has combined with any other flu virus over the years. I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV, but I think the viruses have to be closer related to combine.

www.alertnet.org...

HIV patients at higher risk from flu, WHO says GENEVA,
May 2 (Reuters) - People with HIV are at high risk from the new flu strain that the World Health Organisation said is on the verge of a pandemic, the WHO said on Saturday.

The United Nations agency said people with immunodeficiency diseases -- including the AIDS virus -- will most likely be vulnerable to health complications from the H1N1 strain, as they are from regular seasonal flu, which kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people a year

HIV and the new flu strain could also mix together in a dangerous way, as has occurred with HIV and tuberculosis, the WHO said in guidance for health workers on its website.

HIV patients at higher risk from flu, WHO says
www.alertnet.org...

02 May 2009 11:53:21 GMT
Source: Reuters

Originally posted by rattan1
found this on Turner Radio Network......Very scary:

W.H.O. ISSUES DIRE FLU-HIV WARNING

eneva, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization has issued a dire warning to health professionals worldwide alerting them to the possibility the new flu virus could combine with HIV resulting in air-spreadable AIDS!!!

Individuals infected with HIV are already at risk of contracting the new, highly contagious flu because their immune systems are compromised by HIV.

Difference between viruses and bacteria

The main difference between viruses and bacteria is that viruses - such as the flu - are packets of genetic material and cannot survive on their own, while bacteria are single-celled organisms that can.

Bacteria take in nutrients, expel waste, grow, and reproduce (multiply). Viruses need a host cell (a bacterial, plant, human or animal cell) in order to reproduce. When viruses (like flu) reproduce, they often encounter other viruses inside a host cell. When this happens, the two viruses in the same cell can mix their genetic material. This process is called "re-association" or re-combining; it's how new strains of viruses are formed and how viruses adapt and remain virulent. This recombination is quite common and is why Flu vaccines must be changed every year.

If the new flu mixes with HIV

Flu has been around for a long time. Most of us have been exposed at one time or another to one or more strains of flu thus most of us - even folks with HIV - can usually fight-off prior versions of flu.

The danger, says the WHO, is that none of us have ever encountered this new strain of flu because it has never appeared before.

Additional source: HIV patients at higher risk from flu, WHO says

[edit on 3-5-2009 by rattan1]

Mod Edit: All Caps Removed from Title.

[edit on 5-3-2009 by worldwatcher]