why AIDS can't be spread by mosquitoes?

Discussion in 'Health & Fitness' started by atanu2531, Nov 23, 2006.

  1. valich Registered Senior Member

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    No one is saying that AIDS can't be cured, but to call it a "synthetic ailment" undercuts all the known research about it that underlies our attempts to finding a cure for this "biotic virus." We know what HIV is, how it works, and how it is transmitted, but like hundreds of viral infections - perhaps millions - we have yet to find an antivirul medication for it.
     
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  3. Chatha big brown was screwed up Registered Senior Member

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    Yes but those diseases aren't killing people by the dozens everyday like AIDS. Besides, we know exactly all the elements of those diseses, including origins.
     
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  5. valich Registered Senior Member

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    We know exactly what the elements of HIV are too, but the biggest problem is that it mutates into new strains. I believe it all started around 1957. Back then there was only one strain of HIV. Then we developed the druz AZT to fight it. Now, however, there are at least 8 different strains. AZT was only effective against the initial strain, so now we've developed a "cocktail" of 3 or 4 different medications that have to be taken to fight them all. The biggest problem here is that it costs about $25,000/year per person and so this treatment, although affective, is out of the reach of most third world countries like Africa who have the most cases. The person also has to be educated enough to realize that these medications have to be taken on a regular basis as prescribed or they will not work.
     
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  7. valich Registered Senior Member

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    Nice post.

    "When people with Aids contract malaria, it causes a surge of HIV virus in their blood, making them more likely to infect a partner....malaria can multiply by 10 times the "viral-load" of HIV - the amount of HIV virus in an HIV-infected person's blood - the virus can be transmitted to a sexual partner more easily.

    In turn, the weakening of the immune system by HIV infection has fuelled a rise in adult malaria-infection rates and may have facilitated the expansion of malaria in Africa....Tens of thousands of HIV infections - perhaps 5% of the total - and millions of malaria cases - perhaps 10% of them - could be blamed on this co-infection....Genital herpes and tuberculosis were also suspected of increasing the likelihood of infection." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6220072.stm
     

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