NEWS: AIDS' Natural Born Enemy?

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I'm interested to see how this turns out. It's funny, in a book by William Gibson part of the background is a guy famous for being the cure to aids. He was some sort of gay prostitute and was exposed to HIV but it turned out he had antibodies for it. His antibodies provided the cure and ushered in a new era of promiscuous sex. Hurray! I hope it works.

Ummm...yeah. The burden of proof is definitely on you for this one. The link to between HIV (the virus) and AIDS is pretty substantial. My current microbiology book even discusses the specific pathology (I.E. HOW the HIV virus interferes with the immune system.)

I’m in favor of a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but that would mean the conspiracy is pretty deep...to include not only all the major pharmaceutical companies, and major research facilities, but all the textbook publishing houses, and every university professor and MB student in the country.

What are they doing with all the newly graduated research students who get into the field and suddenly observe that the HIV virus is not working the way they were taught? I mean, is it like “The Firm” where they are all assimilated or killed mafia style? Maybe the aliens help :-)

I would love to see the articles/references...although I am skeptical...mostly because HIV is a virus and the plague is bacterial. It seems deeply unlikely that one will affect the other in any way at all since they have entirely different pathology. I would need to see the research from a Microbiological standpoint to buy into it.

Actually, what frightens me is the thought that maybe it’s not that its gone...but that it has mutated and they just can’t find it! That would be bad.

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Although, I can’t find any references to this (Magic Johnson testing neg) on the web anywhere. Can you link one?


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So I know this article is ancient, but does anyone know what happened with this? Was it a hoax, a fluke? Anyone know more about it?

How many viral illnesses have a cure? It's a simple, surprisingly small number: Exactly None, Zero. If nothing else, AIDS has motivated the basic research that may one day beat viruses in general.

Actually, the story was by Norman Spinrad.

Wow, wrong thread.

There was an old story from the BBC about a man who was cured of AIDs. Here is the story, but basically he needed a bone marrow transplant and since they were already going to destroy his immune system and put in something that generates white blood cells they took the extra time to make sure it came from someone with a resistance. Two years later and he's shown no signs of it. Certainly a brute force solution.

For the cynical blokes, who think that pharmaceutical companies are deliberately dancing around a cure in order to sell people a prescription drug forever. Peter Diamandis, the founder of the X Prize and an interesting person to boot, points out that insurance companies are interested in making a cure, and not paying x dollars a month forever, and are willing to pay for it. Also there are no cures for viruses. There is some hope that RNA interference can be used to cure viruses by knocking out their ability to reproduce.

Different story. thestral is talking about Virtual Light by Gibson.