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RE: Possible cure for AIDS? - 11/13/2008 1:00:39 PM

jlf1961

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jif...i recall a rush by the homosexual community (years age) when this info first came out. They were asking their pcp's for antivirals, but there was no proof that it made a difference. Plus..even if it did have some effect, it was gone when they stopped taking the antiviral.

Holly, in the past that was true, however a very close friend of mine who contracted HIV has been on an antiretroviral regimen for close to five years and his system has done quite well.

The work done in the area in the last 10 years have shown remarkable progress in preventing the progression of the disease, but alas not curing it.

Unfortunately, with the continued spread of the disease in third world Africa and Asia, aid workers are themselves at risk.

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RE: Possible cure for AIDS? - 11/13/2008 7:34:34 PM

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There is one branch of HIV/AIDS research that seems to be ignored by the media.

On the African continent, the source of the HIV virus, it has become apparent that there are some who are repeatedly exposed to the HIV virus and it never develops, their immune system kills the virus outright.

Since the HIV virus is a mutation of possibly two different viruses, SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) and FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) the first being carried by chimps and great apes, the second by the various Feline species on the continent.

The working Hypothesis is that exposure to either of these two viruses causes the person to develop an immunity to HIV, except that this is not always the case because another group of people exposed to the two viruses develop HIV.

The final point is that what works for one group of people may not work for other groups of people, or even that it may be that is some cases a case specific cure must be used.

The resistance to AIDS that some folks have is due to a genetic mutation in of the cellular receptors (CCR5) that HIV latches on to. Northern European populations have about 1% that are resistant (some folks have attributed this to exposure to bubonic plague and anthrax back in the 14th century.)

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RE: Possible cure for AIDS? - 11/13/2008 8:09:29 PM

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Bone Marrow transplant

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.

It would be fantastic if it can be proven. They are still not claiming that the transplant cured him..that it could be genes, dna, specific to him. But it is a light in an otherwise dark chamber.

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RE: Possible cure for AIDS? - 11/13/2008 8:49:50 PM

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

There is one branch of HIV/AIDS research that seems to be ignored by the media.

On the African continent, the source of the HIV virus, it has become apparent that there are some who are repeatedly exposed to the HIV virus and it never develops, their immune system kills the virus outright.

Since the HIV virus is a mutation of possibly two different viruses, SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) and FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) the first being carried by chimps and great apes, the second by the various Feline species on the continent.

The working Hypothesis is that exposure to either of these two viruses causes the person to develop an immunity to HIV, except that this is not always the case because another group of people exposed to the two viruses develop HIV.

The final point is that what works for one group of people may not work for other groups of people, or even that it may be that is some cases a case specific cure must be used.

The resistance to AIDS that some folks have is due to a genetic mutation in of the cellular receptors (CCR5) that HIV latches on to. Northern European populations have about 1% that are resistant (some folks have attributed this to exposure to bubonic plague and anthrax back in the 14th century.)

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This is actually the root of the "cure" discussed in this case. The marrow donor was specifically chosen because he had the mutation and his marrow would therefore produce T cells that cannot be infected.

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