how long does it take for a venereal disease to be cured? that is excluding hiv.?
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Chlamydia and gonorrhea require one very potent dose of antibiotics, then it takes a week to clear.\n\nSyphilis requires one (painful) shot of Bicillin G (a type of penicillin), and three MONTHS of followup to make sure the bacteria have been decimated in your body.\n\nHerpes is not curable, but can be treated with suppressive therapy. That means daily doses of cyclovir-class drugs (Valtrex, Famvir, Zovirax).\n\nHPV is not curable, but requires a lot of followup to make sure it's not progressing to cancer. Warts can be removed surgically.\n\nHIV is not curable, but HAART (highly active anti-retroviral therapy) drugs can limit viral load and prevent decimation of immune cells.
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HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) presents a number of challenges to finding a cure:\n1) Whenever you get a virus or bacterial disease, the medicine that you received typically doesn't kill the virus or bacterial directly. Instead it helps your immune system fight it by making it more difficult for the virus to reproduced or a range of other techniques. Your immune system will do still most of the work in defeating the infection. The HIV virus attacks the immune system. As it result this reduces the effectiveness of most traditional techniques.\n2) It mutates quickly. A drug that work effectively now will eventually stop working (in the case of AIDS it stops working even before the person infected is cured of the HIV virus requiring drug cocktails and other techniques)\n3) Because of 2 many slight variation of the virus exist out there. An effective vaccine would have to target most or all of them. This is a problem because the best treatments for a virus is a vaccine. \nThat there is no cure for a disease is not uncommon. There is no cure for the flu, a virus that kills more people every year in the US than does AIDS. There is no cure for the common cold (another virus), herpes (another virus), malaria (bacteria), ...
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You should consult a good doctor since your condition has been persisting for 6 months.\n\nFurthermore, if you are sexually at risk, get an HIV test.\n\nGood luck!
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Having AIDS is hugely problematic.  It is a fatal illness.  Eventually a person with AIDS will die.  It may take 10 years, 15 years, but they will get very sick and it's only a matter of time.\n\nIt's great to have AIDS and still love LIFE, but I think it's a little strange to love having the illness itself.
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The answer 2 ur Q. is "Long Time".Man hasnt been able to find a cure for any infection including common cold that are caused by any Virus.\nThere sure is a way not to get HIV + & infected by STD's,which is,"ABSTINANCE".\nA,B,C of HIV prevention are,\n1.Abstinance.\n2.Being faithful to 1 uninfected partner.\n3.Regular and consistence use of condoms.\n\nStay Safe.
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Viruses are very hard to kill. Take HIV/AIDS for example.\n\nAt least herpes is not deadly, like AIDS is. I'm sure someday they will find a cure. It might be another 10 years or so, but I believe someday they will find a cure for it.
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No! Where have you been for the past 25 years? HIV is a virus; you cannot cure a virus. There are treatments that can prolong your life if you are infected, but they don't always work for everyone. If you become infected, it is very unlikely that you will live out your normal lifespan, even if you have the drugs. And the drugs are too expensive for most people in the poorest countries where they have the highest rates of infection. There is no "cure" for AIDS!!!
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Even if you have used a 1-day or 3-day treatment, you should still wait about 9-10 days after your first application to safely have sex. Despite the higher dose-shorter day treatments, the infection still takes about 7 days to be completely healed. After that seven days, you still should wait a couple days for insurance. And if you've used a 7-day treatment, you'll want to give your body a little time to clean itself of all the cream you've been putting in.
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That could take years. If you are talking about STDs, there are many and all STDs are transmittable. Google STDs and you will find your information there. Good luck!
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It's not true that all viruses cannot be cured. However, timing is most important. If antivirals are administered early enough, they can prevent infection. For HIV, they'll start you immediately on a bunch of anti-reverse transcriptase drugs, for HBV they'll give you a shot of anti-HBsAg antibodies, etc. Of course, once you are infected, it's too late as everyone stated above.
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3 - 4 weeks.  There is no treatment, the disease is self limiting ie it goes away on its own.  The link below gives more info
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Ask the top 15 AIDS researchers in the world how long it would take HIV to infect the initial cells. If you were to inject these 15 leading AIDS researchers with a live HIV they would probably start a treatment promptly. It's possible all could be cured before 10 - 14 days ( about two weeks ). These great researchers would want to present their findings to the world. Yes, it would help find a cure for AIDS faster.
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Gonorrhea is caused by a type of bacteria that is easily killed with antibiotics. AIDS is caused by a virus. There are no cures for viruses. There are vaccines for some viruses, but no one has been able to develop a vaccine for the AIDS virus yet.
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There is no cure at this time for HIV.  The person can lead a relatively normal life, with the proper treatment.  Who knows, there may be a cure someday as well.
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Remember, the HIV virus is what CAUSES AIDS. AIDS itself is not the virus. You have to be infected with the HIV virus FIRST before the onset of AIDS, and being infected with HIV does NOT mean that AIDS is imminent.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, the median survival time after developing AIDS is under 10 months. It is the progression from HIV to AIDS that can be anywhere from a couple months to 20 years.
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yes you can, unless the syphilis damaged your ablilty to as in no more sperm or eggs then you should be able to, plus if it was caught in time it can be cured within a day teehee
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Any viral infection like genital warts, HIV and Herpes have no cure but can be treated.  \n\nBacteria infections such as syphillis, ghonnerea and the like can be treated and a lot of the time cured with different antibiotics.