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[Particle Physicist]

http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/97/104268.htm

Nov. 29, 2004 -- It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.

The findings appear in the December issue of Nature Medicine.

"The results suggest that [these] vaccines could be a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," Andrieu and colleagues write. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of ... [T-]cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising."

The researchers warn that their study is only proof of principle. It's still not clear which patients do best with the vaccine, although there's evidence that vaccination should be given as soon after HIV infection as possible. Only clinical trials comparing people who get the vaccine to those who don't can show whether this vaccine really is an effective AIDS therapy.

Similar approaches are being explored for the treatment of cancer and long-term viral infections such as hepatitis C.

pretty amazing stuff.. hope this really ends up working.

 

[Particle Physicist]

oops. wrong forum.. sorry.

can a mod please move it to the OT?

 

[Bob White]

Sell your condoms, it's all over.

 

[Patrick Klepek]

*cross fingers*

 

[neptunes]

what?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

GOTY

 

[GSG Flash]

GOTY

I agree

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Sell your condoms, it's all over.

:lol


one finally got me.

 

[Lyte Edge]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

there is an explosion in my pants just thinking about it

 

[gofreak]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

No. HIV should have been a lesson. There could be another HIV.

 

[Chipopo]

I don't get my hopes up about this kind of thing anymore, but hey, *thumbs up*

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

Then the world will be plagued by the new mutation Herpes Magnum.

 

[Chipopo]

NO POST MUST BE WITHOUT SMILEY

 

[OmniGamer]

No. HIV should have been a lesson. There could be another HIV.

Exactly...remember what Lt. Huxley said in Demolition man...in fact, this is just another step towards making DM a reality.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

YES people on gaming message boards should definately get laid more!

*crosses fingers*

 

[3phemeral]

Exactly...remember what Lt. Huxley said in Demolition man...in fact, this is just another step towards making DM a reality.

DM?


If there's another sexual explosion after an HIV vaccine is developed, I'd say those people participating in it are pretty ignorant, considering all of the other non-terminal but life-long diseases you can aquire from sleeping around without protecting. Like gofreak said, I'd take it as a lesson, not as a burden lifted off of one's shoulders. More than likely, if this does work somewhere down the line, people will just take it as a green light to forego sexual caution. Sad, this is already happening among AIDS and medicinal cocktails. They think that even if they are infected, the cocktail will reduce the risk of symptoms.

Another sad thing is the idea that HIV+ people have the idea that they can have intercourse with other HIV+ people, not taking into consideration that the HIV+ strand they have is totally different than their sexual partner's, thereby introducing a new strand and further weakening the almost already non-existent immune system.

 

[maharg]

Hm, sounds expensive. This isn't a general purpose vaccine, it has to be taylored to the person getting it. Otherwise cool, but it's not going to save Africa if it can't be made in boatloads.

 

[shuri]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

What the? That's terribly retarded. Lots of STDs are will around, many of them, uncurable, and no, girls wont suddenly start opening up their legs more often because HIV is gone.

 

[OmniGamer]

DM?

The aforementioned Demolition Man.

 

[Fantasmo]

You guys are missing the point... this proof-of-concept guy is one lucky mofo'!!!

I wonder if they tested him with dirty needles or hot chicks.

Either way.... helloooooooooooooooooooooo nurse!

 

[maharg]

What the? That's terribly retarded. Lots of STDs are will around, many of them, uncurable, and no, girls wont suddenly start opening up their legs more often because HIV is gone.

Yeah like how the invention of birth control pills didn't have any part in the explosion of the free love movement in the 60s and 70s.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Yeah like how the invention of birth control pills didn't have any part in the explosion of the free love movement in the 60s and 70s.

I've no idea on the statistics of that. But as AIDS is only one STD, that might be comparable to a birth control pill that keeps one from creating large children.

 

[maharg]

I think you overestimate the degree to which people are aware of and, dare I say, interested in STDs other than AIDS. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to expect a general increase in unprotected sex if there were ways to limit the transmission of HIV in particular.

Mind you, I don't think this qualifies as the above. It doesn't eliminate the HIV virus, it only decreases the load substantially and appears as if it might even require continued injections. It's still a cocktail-type situation, just much simpler.

I also don't think it will result in a significant increase in sex in general. Only an increase in unprotected sex. I don't think actual levels of sexual activity have decreased that much since the outbreak of AIDS.

 

[Pimpwerx]

There'll be a giant condom bonfire followed by the world's largest orgy when this becomes a reality. And hey, I don't think it's so ignorant. You're guaranteed to get ay least another decade of reckless sex in before the next big disease steps in. Skanks and hobags around the world just saw their stock go up. :lol PEACE.

 

[Tritroid]

Does anyone else think that whenever a full cure for HIV and/AIDS is discovered that there's going to be a sex explosion?

No. Not with HIV-2 becoming more and more common.

From what I hear, HIV-2 is a different strand all together. Which means that breakthroughs in HIV-1 cases, like this, might not necessarily work at all for HIV-2.

I've also heard of cases in Africa where there's a newer strand of HIV that's being easily spread through oral sex, which up until this point has been thought of as an extremely low risk activity for HIV transmission. This means that somehow the new strand is finding its way into thicker muscus membrane walls, namely the mouth and throat, possibly even without cuts or sores.

But this is very promising news overall. I seriously do think that a cure for common HIV/AIDS is very very close. Since it became an epidemic in the 1980s, medicine has come a really long way in how it's treated, especially with the breakthrough of HAART. People are now comparing living with HIV as similar to living with diabeties. It's not even really a death sentence anymore.

HIV/AIDS in the developing world however...that's another story entirely.

 

[Fatalah]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...12.waids1212/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/

New story today...

 

[LakeEarth]

Looking at second article, inhibits reverse transcriptase? That'll stop more than just AIDS, TONS of viruses use that enzyme. Though the enzyme probably varies from virus to virus, so it might not work for all of em.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

This is great news, but I want it to stop the whole cast from Dave Chappelle's STD Muppet Skit

 

[MrPing1000]

queue a conspiracy by christians to destroy any evidence of the vaccine.

 

[Phoenix]

queue a conspiracy by christians to destroy any evidence of the vaccine.

Yeah because there aren't any christians with AIDS

 

[teiresias]

Yeah because there aren't any christians with AIDS

Yeah, but they just pray and they're better. Hell, they'll even pray in the car, run a stop sign, end up with a metal pole through their neck, live through that and be cured of AIDS!!!