*What did really happen to magic johnson?\n*If it remains that there is no cure, do you think that scientists would comeup to one in the future or would the death toll just keep on increasing?\n*Could it be possible, like in what they do to cure allergies, they inject the substance that provokes the allergy to increase immunity to the stimulus, why cant they do the same with the AIDS virus to prevent it from being acquired?
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I would like to hope that medical professionals would release info to the public that would help people. However, I would venture to say it could be a possibility that there is information that could help people with AIDS but medical professionals won't release it. \n Medical professionals have been reluctant to study herbal therapies. Perhaps because there would not be much profit if they were proven to work against diseases or perhaps just having a lackadaisical approach to finding other ways to combat ailments is the reason why they have been reluctant to study alternate therapies.\n Is it possible to reduce viral load with alcohol? Ask any medical professional if a small quantity of alcohol would work in reducing viral load. I say it can.\n Is it possible to use peppermint oil lozenges to slow the immune response so that the killer cells can destroy virus before the virus destroys helper cells? I say it can.\n You are very wise to ask the last question. Is it possible to reduce viral load along with a consistent slowing down of the immune response (without hindering the power of the immune system) and then use a vaccine ( even a non-specific one ) to help rebuild the immune system? Ask the top AIDS researchers if it can work. I say it can work. I believe it could be possible for the bloodstream to have an immunity to the virus although some virus may still be hiding within the body. In essence this could be a cure for AIDS.\n This treatment could be a cheap and effective way to help people .
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My daughter suffered from severe migraines including vision loss, blacking out, fainting, tunnel vision and vomiting.  We were never able to find relief for her and I'm not sure the medical world actually has anything to cure this.  She tried everything.\nWe then found an all natural product that has medical validation that she decided to try.  She has not had even a mild headache since starting this and no longer worries about fainting at work.  This is an adaptogen which works on all auto-immune deficiencies and we have found it works when nothing else did!  Contact me if you would like to learn more about it.
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There is currently no "cure" for autism. I know that it is devastating for parents when their child has autism. There is research being done all over the world for this condition, but as of yet, there is no cure & anyone that tries to tell you that there is, is just trying to take advantage of the fact that desperate parents will try ANYTHING to help their children. These guys have no scruples & I often wonder how they can sleep at night.
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Always pleased to further the resaerch into diabetes and it's effects. I have been diabetic for 10 years now and still struggle with the fact i have it. I thinl there should be some kind of couselling form newly diagnosed diabetics but... yeah send those questions on. joelle@melvern.co.uk
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I personally feel that a good thing is that AIDS has not been cured with a pill.  AIDS is on the rise again due to people not seeing the death rate as before.  The medicine is making people live longer, but at what cost?  Plus the virus continues to mutate and get stronger.\n\nI have a friend who ended up contracting the HIV virus about a year ago.  He started out saying, "No big deal.  I will just take the pills."  Now he lives a life of being constantly ill from the medicines and with Diahreah. (m.s.?)\n\nI highly recommend that you go to your local County Infectious Disease Clinic and pick up some literature.  It gives statistics in your county.
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I think he is in remission, as his last treatment was in 2002.  No other updates have been posted onto the Internet, so I can assume there have been no further outbreaks of melanoma.  I agree, my thoughts and prayers also go out to him.
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It would have been impossible to contain through quarantine. Since there are no symptoms of HIV, there would have been no way isolation would have stopped the spread when it first came here. \n\nBesides, isolation camps for certain groups are more of a left solution. Just ask the Japanese Americans who were around during WWII.\n\nThe problem, as usual, lies with personal responsibility. Words that Clinton taught us not to believe in, I know, but there it is. The blood supply is now safe from HIV, so how are people still contracting it?\n\nDrug use, promiscuous sex. Eliminate the behavior, stop the spread.\n\n\nuh-oh, I think I smell one of those conspiracy theory people here. For the record, I've lived in FL since 1976 and the only virus I've ever caught was this raging Pro Bush conservative-itis that gets stronger every time I read answers like that.
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I saw on PBS on night a special on the plaques in England and some people carried genes to help prevent the disease and now they're saying people with those genes that survived the bubonic plaque can't get AIDS. This is because AIDS and the bubonic plaque attack the same way and the gene makes it so the disease can't enter the systems and ends up attacking it's self. Not sure if that was helpful or not. But i'm sure they could do something with the knoweledge.
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I'm sorry to say, no there is no cure for it.  There is a lot of research, but no cure yet.  They are coming out with medications that can help.
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I hadn't heard about this.  If they indeed tried to hide the fact from the public, it's a horrid disservice to those with allergies.  My kids are allergic to everything and it's so hard.  People just don't understand the severity of it all until you live with it.  Too many "well-meaning" people have made my kids sick.  When they were little, I finally made them pins that read, "DO NOT FEED ME without talking to Mom!"  Sometimes even that didn't work! Ughhhh!
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There isn't a cure, and there may never be.  Some cancers have really good therapies (ie testicular cancer, childhood leukemia).  Some really don't, ie pancreatic, glioblastoma.  Some cancers still kill within 1-2 years, and this hasn't changed in decades.  But many are more treatable now.  AIDS has alot of drugs for treatment, but it's actually hard to prevent people from getting AIDS (vaccines difficulties) or to root out HIV (antiviral difficulties).  All we can do really is keep it from spreading.  Maybe in a few more decades we can do this.  Cancer will always be a problem because you won't know you have it until it's too late, since most people don't do checkups for every type of cancer out there every year.  Maybe in the future we'll have a blood test that can tell if you have any type (or 99% of them) of cancer.  ALot of work is going into that, including some that our lab is doing.  But believe me there is no vast consipracy; but you can make the arguement that potentially life saving drugs are not on the market because the regulatory hurdles are too high or they won't make a profit.  Drugs cost billions to get FDA approved, and unless they are going to benefit alot of people pharma companies aren't going to bother with them.  That's economics, it's not a conspiracy.  If we didn't have such huge requirements then there would be alot more drugs available, and alot more people will die from them.
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Unless the other caught it from blood products I would be sceptical of the reason for contraction.. I had a cousin that died of Aids.. She caught it from her boyfriend who was a haemophiliac.He caught it from the Red Cross tainted blood   She was already infected when he tested positive.. So they stayed together.. He was Innocent and she was already positive... So they enjoyed the life they had left together. Both have passed away since..\n\n    Myself??   I would be history.  But people are so different ..   Magic Johnson says he still has women willing to sleep with him..knowing full well that he is positive..
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Recently, it was reported that there were some sort of breakthrough in finding similarities at the molecular level.  If this is true, this could narrow the research further.\nThe AIDS virus constantly changes, thus no one agent can cure it.  This is why so many AIDS patients take so many different pills to help prolong their life.\nAs far as Africa is concerned, they seem to live long productive lives in their standard of living.  Africa has come so far in combating AIDS through knowledge.  The one thing that can't seem to be overcome, is the raping of virgins by infected men with AIDS.
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I just posted a question yesterday about Kevin Trudeau's Natural cure they don't want you to know about. Maybe you should read it. There is a lot in common with what you are saying and what he says in his book...
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i tell you what i believe .... and we are not being informed by the medical feild ,, but our naturalist are telling it !!!!its all over the net  ........our animals are treated for parasites!!!!!!!!!we humans are not !!!!!!when i was a little girl and let us go back to even  out ancestors  they  treated once a year for  parasites  but  why have we quit??????? not me i found a remedy  and all the hurts and pains that i began getting as i became  older has now dissappeared believe it  or not  i do a dailey parasite program have for several years now nothing compares to it   .... so why are our animals more healthy ????isnt it funny we worm our dogs, cats, horses, cows, and so on  what about  us?????? something  for u to think about
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You're right...The movie Forrest Gump did have AIDS in it--"Jenny", his love, got AIDS from her alternative lifestyle (unprotected sex, intervenous drug use). They don't say "AIDS" in the movie, but she describes the symptoms and the lack of any treatment, which is what AIDS treatments started with back in in the early '80s. Obviously there is no cure--yet. Many people, including some in the government, thought that AIDS was an affliction of the Gay Community and drug users and wasn't important for "normal," heterosexual people, that is, until the heterosexual community started developing the disease as well. Children developed AIDS from being born to HIV positive mothers who got the disease from their unfaithful husbands, young people contracted it from their dentists, etc. It is a horrible disease and brought a real halt to promiscuous behavior that had predominated in the 1960s and 1970s. There was quite a stigma about AIDS for many years and there was a real fear about "catching" it from casual contact with people. Television tried to deal with this with television movies, sitcoms, news broadcasts, 60 Minutes program...the list goes on and on. Mainstream movies about AIDS continue this tradition. When Liz Taylor comforted her gay friend, Rock Hudson, who was a dying of the diesase in 1985, I know many were shocked that she would put herself in such danger (she's still alive, as far as I know, 20+ years later). "Magic" Johnson, the basketball player, came out with the news he was HIV-positive and the media had a field-day with it--other BB players were concerned that he might have infected them by sweating on them. Princess Diana was quite instrumental in getting the issue of compassionate care of AIDS victims to the forefront. She too defied "common sense" and comforted AIDS patients by holding their hands and stroking their hair, etc. These images were broadcast worldwide. I remember as a teenager then thinking that she must be very brave. In effect, she was much more informed than the rest of us. My 2nd cousin died of AIDS. Hope I've helped...Good luck with your assignment!
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According to the legends (of course, it depends on which one your reading), vampires wouldn't care about such things.  Their bodies have the ability to fight off diseases and regenerate, so AIDS would be just a little blip before their body rejected it and healed itself.