Are there any scientific documents which support the assumption that HIV causes AIDS?
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ADDENDUM: Way to take a quote out of context, you FRAUD! You managed to miss the sentence that followed immediately: "There is no single scientific paper that proves HIV causes AIDS. INSTEAD THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PAPERS CONTAINING A WIDE RANGE OF EVIDENCE THAT, TAKEN TOGETHER, MAKE THE CASE OVERWHELMING."\n\nYou simply stopped reading after the first full stop. You also probably have no experience reading scientific literature, because if you did, you'd know that major ideas in science are supported by SEVERAL peer-reviewed sources, and that consistency in the literature is the basis for a STRONG argument. \n</addendum>\n\nPrevailing distrust of the pharmaceutical/medical establishment has led to a wave of conspiracy theorists (aka, wearers of tin-foil hats) who do not believe in the etiological connection between HIV and AIDS. \n\n1. Strength. A strong association, such as a five- or tenfold increase in risk, is more likely to be causal than a weak association (such as a 10% increase in risk) because a weak association is more likely to be spurious, arising from bias, confounding, or chance. However, a weak association does not rule out causality! Nonetheless, HIV is present in all cases of AIDS, which is a pretty strong association, don't you think?\n\n2. Consistency. If the association is repeatedly observed in different populations in different settings, it is more likely to be causal than an isolated observation. For example, AIDS has been shown to affect gays, Haitians, Africans and hemophiliacs -- their only commonality would be HIV-infection. However, lack of consistency does not rule out a causal connection; some causes only work in certain circumstances, say in the presence of cofactors. These cofactors include genetic predisposition to delay onset of disease compared to other cases.\n\n3. Specificity. The idea here is that a cause should lead to a single effect, not multiple effects. HIV --> immunodeficiency syndrome. This may have been a holdover from infectious disease thinking; it is clearly wrong in many other circumstances. For instance, smoking causes lung cancer, bladder cancer, emphysema, and heart disease.\n\n4. Temporality. A cause must precede an effect in time. This one is ALWAYS true! HIV infection **always** precedes development or AIDS. It has never been shown that AIDS patients acquire HIV subsequent to the onset of syndrome.\n\n5. Biological gradient. This is the presence of a dose-response gradient; if more of a dose leads to more of an effect, this supports the idea of causality. A dose-response gradient is helpful, but its absence doesn't rule out causation (DES and vaginal adenocarcinoma, asbestos and mesothelioma) and its presence doesn't prove causation (since it may result from confounding or bias). In this sense, there is such thing as an infectious dose. Theren eeds to be a fairly significant amount of virus in order to generate infection and subsequent disease. Exposure to one virus particle does not necessitate infection because the body's immune response can still clear it.\n\n6. Plausibility. The idea of causation must be biologically plausible. This may be elusive because we hold many fixed ideas; many people doubted for years that peptic ulcer disease cold be infectious in origin! OK, this is bulletpoint you take most issue with. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past twenty-plus years elucidating the mechanism of infection from how it enters the body, where it lands (receptor sites, specific responses), how it propagates, and how it spreads. The explantations they have come up with are plenty biologically plausible (that is assuming oyu understand advanced biological concepts).\n\n7. Coherence. The idea of causation must accord with other observations. For example, as Hill wrote, a causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer was coherent with the observations that smokers had dysplasia of the bronchial epithelium, or th
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There are many theories about the origin of the HIV virus but none of them have them proved.\n\n\nNo record of HIV virus exists in history and it has been said that it started in central Africa and from there it started spreading slowly and slowly.\n\n\nHIV was identified in 1983.Earlier the researchers found that chimps acquired the disease from eating one of their favorite preys: monkeys.\n\n\n“Chimps are 98 percent genetically the same as humans, and they don’t get sick from SIV. This is an especially important clue for developing an HIV vaccine, the researchers said. Understanding what prevents chimps from getting sick would help scientists duplicate resistance to AIDS symptoms in humans.”\n\n\nResearchers say, “Chimps likely picked up viruses from both types of monkeys, and eventually a hybrid formed, the researchers said. That probably happened tens of thousands of years ago, which may have given chimps an opportunity to evolve resistance to an AIDS-like disease.”\n\n\nSome researchers say that virus related to HIV is found in monkeys in Africa. Many scientists believe that the first humans got the HIV virus from monkeys by eating them as food or being scratched or bitten by them. It is possible that during preparation of the food or butchering the meat the infected blood could have entered the human body through a cut.\n\n\nA Canadian flight attendant, nicknamed “patient zero” dies of AIDS he had sexual connection with several of the first victims of AIDS. It is believed that he is responsible for introducing the virus into the general population. By 1984 there are almost 8000 confirmed cases in the US, with 3700 confirmed deaths (CDC surveillance report, Dec. 1984).
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There is no proof for such possibility. The virus has a very weak environmental susceptibility and is not able to be transmitted via contaminated surfaces. Modes of transmission are sexual, vertical, blood or blood components transfusion, broken skin+infected blood and contaminated needles used by injection drug users.\nThe disease is diagnosed when an opportunistic infection e.g. P Cranii P or malignancy e.g. K. Sarcoma are detected, HIV antibodies in the blood and the increased numbers of T cells in the blood.
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sources of infection or sources for a paper?
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false.  it means they will develop aids.  hiv causes aids.
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In humans, they believe the first case to go back to the 1950s.  One theory claims that HIV spread from primates to humans in Africa by people eating uncooked/undercooked primate meat.*  \n\nThree of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are as follows:\n\n   1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n   2. HIV found in tissue samples from an American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.\n   3. HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.\n\n\n\n*Diseases such as HIV spreading from animal to human is rare.  Scientists speculate that this was possible only because of a mutated form of HIV in the primates.
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click here:http://www.bestandworst.com/r/?id=4429\nhttp://www.gibbsmagazine.com/Where%20AIDS%20Came%20From.htm\nhttp://www.alldeaf.com/topic-debates/25274-where-did-aids-come.html\nhttp://beatnikboy.tripod.com/aids.htm\nhttp://www.natap.org/2002/9retro/day0.htm\n\n\nThe origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a promiscuous flight attendant to a suspect vaccine programme being blamed. So what it the truth? Just where did AIDS come from?\n\nThe first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (more about this period can be found on our history page). A number of gay men in New York and San Francisco suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment. At this time, AIDS did not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The discovery of HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS was made soon after. While some were initially resistant to the connection (and indeed remain so today), there is now clear evidence to prove that HIV does cause AIDS. So, in order to find the source of AIDS, it is necessary to look for the origin of HIV, and find out How, When and Where HIV first began to cause disease in humans.
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Yeah there is a lot of debate on where it originally came from. This is all I could really find:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Origin_of_HIV\n\n(I can't believe that person copy and pasted the whole article from Wikipedia!! lol)
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Yes. Any exchange of bodily fluids CAN result in the transmission of HIV or AIDS, although the risk is smaller when it is oral. \n\n"HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. "\n- http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/transmission.htm\n\n"The risk of HIV transmission from an infected partner through oral sex is much smaller than the risk of HIV transmission from anal or vaginal sex. Because of this, measuring the exact risk of HIV transmission as a result of oral sex is very difficult."\n-http://www.avert.org/orlsx.htm#q3
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Right.  Technically, AIDS is not sexually transmitted.  The virus that causes it, HIV, is sexually transmitted, though.
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HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome has been studied for the last 25 years. Lots is known about HIV, since AIDS is a syndrome, it is difficult to know everything about it. So, perhaps everything is not known but there are tons of credible information on both.
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Hi.  I just did a google search on the origin of Aids and Hiv....\nI remembered something about it starting in Africa, but the link I am sending you will tell you the whole story and the dates.\nHope I was of some help...\n\n~Linda S~\naka\nlongleggedblonde1378
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No. I'm not sure where you're making the connection with that, but you get intestinal parasites from eating infected foods. You get HIV by coming into contact with the body fluids of an infected person.
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There is a great article on this...web address is below.  Explains that the HIV virus first developed in monkeys, transferred to chimps, them to men who hunted and ate the chimps.  Read it...very interesting.
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Symptoms:\nThe symptoms of AIDS are primarily the result of infections that do not normally develop in individuals with healthy immune systems. These are called opportunistic infections.\n\nPatients with AIDS have had their immune system depleted by HIV and are very susceptible to such opportunistic infections. Common symptoms are fevers, sweats (particularly at night), swollen glands, chills, weakness, and weight loss.\n\nSee the signs and tests section below for a list of common opportunistic infections and major symptoms associated with them.\n\nNote: Initial infection may produce no symptoms. Some people with HIV infection remain without symptoms for years between the time of exposure and development of AIDS. However, some people develop what feels like flu about two weeks after contracting the virus.\n\nSigns and tests:\nThe following is a list of AIDS-related infections and cancers that people with AIDS acquire as their CD4 count decreases. Previously, having AIDS was defined by having HIV infection and acquiring one of these additional diseases, but now it is simply defined as a CD4 count below 200. Many other illnesses and corresponding symptoms may develop in addition to those listed here.\n\n\nPrevention:\nThe following steps may seem personally restrictive, but they are effective and can save your life.\n\n1.See the article on safe sex to learn how to reduce the chance of acquiring or spreading HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.\n2.Do not use intravenous drugs. If IV drugs are used, do not share needles or syringes. Many communities now have needle exchange programs where used syringes can be disposed of and new, sterile needles obtained for free. 3.These programs can also provide referrals to addiction treatment.\n4.Avoid contacting blood from injuries or nosebleeds where the HIV status of the bleeding individual is unknown. 5.Protective clothing, masks, and goggles may be appropriate when caring for people who are injured.\n6.Anyone who tests positive for HIV may pass the disease on to others and should not donate blood, plasma, body organs, or sperm. An infected person should warn any prospective sexual partner of their HIV-positive status, should not exchange body fluids during sexual activity, and must use whatever preventative measures (such as condoms) will afford the partner the most protection.\n7.HIV-positive women who wish to become pregnant should seek counseling about the risk to unborn children and medical advances which may help prevent the fetus from becoming infected. Use of certain medications can dramatically reduce the chances that the baby will become infected during pregnancy.\n8.Mothers who are HIV-positive should not breast feed their babies.\n9.Safe-sex practices, such as latex condoms, are highly effective in preventing HIV transmission. HOWEVER, there remains a risk of acquiring the infection even with the use of condoms. Abstinence is the only sure way to prevent sexual transmission of HIV.\n\n=)
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Here's a source at the Center for Disease Control that should put you well on your way:\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/disease_info.htm\n\nQuick summary:  STDs are Sexually Transmitted Diseases. HIV is the virus that cause AIDS, the disease, which is sexually transmitted (among other ways.)
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all i will say is check out this link headed by duesberg the top virologist who address the misconception within the public sphere and scientific community about HIV and AIDS \nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6814491427846073388&q=AIDS+CONSPIRACY&pl=true\n\nalternatively go to the Heal website\n\nlet me know what you think...