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Dianec
reply to post by flammadraco
I had no idea there was even more than one strain! Thanks for the information.
There are at least 60 different strains of HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus). HIV-1 types have the shortest development period, rapidly growing from an infection to AIDS in about five years, when compared to other strains.
www.natureworldnews.com...
I think there is both a good and a bad for AZT or whatever they are using today. They keep the disease at bay but this may make a way for the disease to get stronger, resistance can develop, and it allows more of an opportunity for the disease to spread.
And thank you for the comment about my friend. I believe he was on AZT (or there were studies being done on it at the time and he was participating). I can't remember. It didn't help him much based on how he quickly he went downhill. Maybe it wasn't fine tuned at that time so was ineffective.
flammadraco
People newly diagnosed with HIV today can expect a normal life expectancy if they are diagnosed early and receive treatment.
reply to post by webedoomed
Second, what is the exact science today? How many average boinkings are needed to transfer the virus?
webedoomed
A follow up question. How many people have HIV that lays dormant, and can't be detected? As in, how many people's immune system effectively fight the virus into hiding? Do we even have a clue?
webedoomed
A follow up to my follow up: what about can be detected, but never become symptomatic?
webedoomed
I get the impression this virus is more related to lifestyle choices in general, not just the boinking in the bum.
Dianec
I don't know how fast they can detect it today
webedoomed
Is this incorrect thinking?
webedoomed
Which proves my point above. This "running the course" means they bunker up and stop fighting until reactivated when the body is in a weakened state. They can reactivate years, or even decades later.
webedoomed
An hour to get your results after being tested, or an hour after the boinking in which you can be properly tested for the virus?
gardener
flammadraco
People newly diagnosed with HIV today can expect a normal life expectancy if they are diagnosed early and receive treatment.
Isn't that assuming costly multiple daily doses of medications over decades upon decades will somehow be made availably without interruption for the diseased's lifetime? (And how do most die, anyways?)
It seems to me, people have forgotten that regardless of what miracles the US med-pharma industry comes up with to extend peoples lives some, HIV remains human IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE virus that deactives the human immune response that is necessary to overcome the common cold, and plethora of other pathogens the human body is exposed to but relies on a healthy immune system to overcome.
Snarl
Dianec
I don't know how fast they can detect it today
In about an hour.