Thank God I never get laid anymore

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This is highly disturbing.

Condoms are good.

NOT AS GOOD AS CELIBACY!!!!




*cries*

Okay, I shouldn't joke - this is a scary thing. Hell, HIV by itself is scary enough without some super version of it. Jesus. Be careful, people.

Dammit, this is actually a topic that is worth a look from everyone, and it's falling to the second page.


*BUMP*

"full-blown AIDS"

They used one of my favorite sayings in this article!!!!!

On a serious note it is disturbing......

It probably would have helped if I'd named it something like

EVERYONE READ THIS OR YOU WILL DIE

But you'd think someone being excited about not getting laid would make everyone curious.

In college we used to refer to HIV as the high five. As in "wrap it up dude, she looks like she might give ya the high five."

Certainly nobody ever deserves to get HIV, but it sounds like this guy pretty much went out looking for it. Sheesh.

Also, I wish this thread had a better title so more people would look at it. Maybe submit as a newswire article?

Jesus Christ! Like I didn't have enough to be scared of as it is!

Scary.

it's not terribly shocking though, i mean mutating is sort of what a virus does, and becoming resistant to meds is part of those mutations.

don't get me wrong it's horrible i'm not trying to be an asshole, i'm just saying from an immunological perspective it's not a big shock.

however i do agree that more people should be reading this thread and getting scared into carrying supply closets full of safer sex supplies everywhere they go.

its gonna be the new plague now holy fuck thanks for the early warning i shall remain committed to my toys lol

It's a plague on those who participate in well-known high-risk behavior, yea. If you take responsibility and play safe you can reduce the risk.

Right, but it already was doing that, and we knew that. The whole thing with HIV is that it mutates constantly, so your body can't fight it, I believe. And they said that the regular strain was becoming resiliant to the cocktail or whatever it is that they're using these days. This isn't in line with any of that. It's a whole new thing. More reason to be really careful, if any more was needed.

it IS scary ew... wrap it up people

i know, but in general a virus will mutate as it invades the hosts cells as a away of being able to continue to do so essentially, the whole thing with HIV is that as a retrovirus its particularly good at it, and the cells that it invades are serioulsy neccessary ones. and yes this is different, but i'm just saying that most people that work in HIV reserach won't be too shocked by it, which is why a lot of money has been diverted away from treatment and to preventative immunization (all major pharmoceutical companies aside here, whose money comes from 'treatment' based medications) because they just can't control it once it starts...

Alarming stuff!!

Doesnt surprise me.
I see this shit at work all day long.
....It gets worse than this.

that sucks. and i'm sure it gets worse.

Because only people who deserve it get AIDS.

yeah calling it a plague is very iffy, very reminicent of those who called it the gay plague. risk can be reduced yes, but never completely illiminated

[Edited on Feb 12, 2005 by retsin]

never eliminated, you can get it several ways and i think an unresponsive strain (to meds) is going to be epic

ahhhhhhh, virginity isn't so bad after all

(I'm still gonna take it out on others though)

I just want someone to tell me why God keeps making new strains of HIV. Dick.