NEWS: AIDS' Natural Born Enemy?

CULTURE: AIDS' Natural Born Enemy?

So it appears that one man in Britain has has rid his body of the HIV virus.

This would mean that there's a chance for the rest of the AIDS world. Any antibody that they find will be engineered to help those with AIDS try to beat it in their body too.

Good luck to them.

awesome

is it Osmosis Jones?

However, the first test result could have been a false positive.

Go go gadget science brain.

didn't that happen witch magic johnson

He tried to take legal action against them because he felt the results were wrong but they claim they were 100 % right in the tests they did.

Its been said that something like 10% of europeans have a natural immunity due to some connection between it and the plague.

Yup, and a lot of african (Nigerian?) prostitutes also have developed immunity to the disease.

and he couldn't have just gotten a false positive? Let's not get our hopes up people.

It was more than likely a false positive. The money is not in the cure for AIDS, it's in the medicine that slows it progression. There will never be a cure unless a worse disease comes along.

uh, how bout cancer?

im not doing backflips or anything, but if he sued and couldnt prove the test was a false positive, then im certainly not going to poop on good news

Sadly, they loose that immunity if they stop being exposed to the virus. Then they can catch AIDS.

[Edited on Nov 14, 2005 11:15PM]

Was it cigarettes??

I really hope it's cigarettes.

Yeah it's a genetic mutation that prevents the virus from being hosted into the blood stream. I saw something about it on the Discovery Channell.

Oh just go smoke already.

Oh sure, you'd love it if I did that, wouldn't you?

wow. I hope they can engineer something that truly works to stop the virus. the vaccine they're working on (there's a study being conducted in SF) will be great, but it'll be bets if they can cure as well as prevent.

thus, there's a problem, Where's the money if the world were cured of aids and hivs? that's corporate propanga for you. But i'm hoping that they'll find cure for it anyways...

AFAIK the hospital who did the tests used DNA testing to prove that it was his blood they had tested positive and not somebody elses. + he had been diagnosed HIV-positive for 14 months, which is plenty of time to do lots of control tests. It is standard procedure to do a second test quickly after the first one showed a positive, to prevent people from living in unnecessary fear if the first was a false positive. I strongly doubt that they waited 14 months to do the control test.

Looks like the real McCoy to me. Imagine what you sex life would be like without the fear of AIDS...

EDIT: 14 months, not 6.

[Edited on Nov 14, 2005 6:23PM]

My favorite part of the article?

Wow, he must be an expert!! Thanks for the new info, doc.

AIDS is not what you should fear above all else when it comes to a promiscuous sex life. there are plenty of other sexually transmitted diseases that kill much faster... or at least are disgusting and incurable... herpies simplex comes to mind.

AIDS is not a virus people. It stands for Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is connected to HIV... but there are zero clinical trials that link AIDS to HIV. Not to say it is not a problem... but the worldwide pandemic... has never happened. there is a lot of hype... because there is a lot of money in the research.

well good luck to the rest of you

No, the Nigerian prostitues have a mutant form of the chemokine receptor HIV uses to infect T cells. They never got HIV to begin with. I'm guessing this guy got a false positive on his original test and was never infected to begin with either. The whole thing sounds dodgy. He's refusing to let anyone run any further tests on him to support his "miracle" claim.

Edited to add: My bad, that BBC article claims something different about the Nigerian prostitutes..

-caellum

[Edited on Nov 14, 2005 8:29PM]

Acutally, it's Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and I'd like to see some peer-reviewed journals and studies to back up your claims.