Do you know HIV virus is human made against to eliminate one group of people?
929431
Actually the virus has its origins in Africa. In the 1950s when the African government with the aid of the united nations began vaccinations for polio. HIV was introduced to the people in the vaccine. The polio vaccine was grown using Rhesus and Simian monkey which has a very similar viral infection. In fact they are cousins or genetically related. The vaccines for polio were contaminated with the HIV virus. There is a good book that talks about this occurrence called "The River". It was titled this because it was along this route that the virus spread and the polio vaccine was implemented. This may be a coincidence but some people think it was done on purpose. I think it was a medical mistake.
211817
false.  it means they will develop aids.  hiv causes aids.
1176809
The main reason is that HIV is unlike any other virus that causes disease. A vaccine can be made for basically every other virus, becuase if you introduce dead or weakened versions of the virus the immune system recognizes it and then kills the virus effectively and quickly whenever it is introduced into the system. With HIV, however, the virus attacks the very cells that normally carry out this function. Also, it mutates very quickly, making attempts at curing or even alleviating its symptoms all the more difficult.\n\nAs for the other poster who said that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, he is spouting dangerous lies. Every credible scientist who has ever worked on AIDS agrees that it is caused by HIV. AIDS existed well before AZT was used to treat it - how could it cause AIDS?
130372
A lot of scientists theorize that HIV first originated from chimpanzees and were transferred on at least three seperate occasions from chimpanzees to humans in Africa. They also say that chimpanzees have carried HIV for hundreds of thousands of years before, but do not show any symptoms. In other words, it doesn't affect them.\n\nSome scientists say that humans were first exposed to the virus in Africa, when bush-meat hunters slaughtered a chimpanzee and ate it. A lot of people in Africa still hunt chimpanzees for consumption; they kill so many of them that the number of wild chimpanzees in Central Africa is dwindling.\n\nBecause of speculation that the chimpanzees first had HIV before humans did, a lot of scientists are testing monkeys and wild chimpanzees to see if they can figure out why the virus doesn't harm the monkeys and possibly find a cure for HIV/AIDS from there.
831010
Aids virus has been suggested that it is Biological warfare compound and that HIV is indeed attached to the Aids virus. \n\nThe reason it is so prevalent in Africa is that the peoples in Africa are very susceptible to parasites and other pathogens, so much so that their immune systems are compromised. It didn't originate there though.
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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...
870150
The HIV virus has been a living virus in the animal kingdom since time in the beginning. Your pet cat has the virus. What happen was this - as this world over populated and people began to starve, corruption in every corner of the globe, people ate parts of the "monkey" , the brains in fact, for the first time, and that is how the virus entered mankind. Now through bi-sexuality - it spread, and you know that you can be in any part of the world in less then 4-hrs - that is how it travelled into our countries. There will never be a cure for it, as man does not have the DNA link to the animal DNA - the only cure is safe sex, and unfortunately that is not working, or sinking into the heads of our young people. 4 young people and hour, under the age of 34 - (14-34) male and female, contract the AIDS virus an hour! in North America!! we are not far behind the 3rd worlds which have millions dying and dead from this uncontrollable disease. A generation of children are now orphans with both parents dead from HIV. Pass it on and only have safe sex. Good question - Check out "Bono's" site, big web and lots of info on this subject and on feed the world.
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Don't you know that they can and do also test for the presence of HIV virus? Like, they can detect HIV years before they detect AIDS. Please read this: http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/orgs/stepaids/testing.htm\n\nYour immune system will try to fight back by producing antibodies to HIV. Each type of antibody is unique to the disease, so if you have HIV antibodies then you have the virus.\n\nIt can take years for the HIV virus to kill all or most of the immune cells, and once someone has lost most of them its called AIDS. Hunger and malnutrition aren't good for your immune system, but they kill in different and easily identifiable ways that don't look like AIDS to a doctor.\n\nThis will answer most of your other questions:\nhttp://www.aids.org/info/FAQs.html
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HIV is a virus that is passed through blood and body fluids.  It can be passed through unprotected sex, used needles, oral, and rectal sex.  Viruses are common and this is an illness just like chicken pox is an illness.  Early detection and taking meds as prescribed can make the virus undetectable in a person's blood, but they must continue taking meds forever to keep it under control. It is not a death sentence to be diagnosed with HIV.
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Most people know that. And most people with AIDS/HIV are very responsible. I feel for them.\nWhat I don't like though......it is those people WHO KNOW they can infect others but do not care..\nSame with other other diseases really..Herpes, STDs etc..
150291
The HIV virus, human immunodeficiency virus, causes the disease AIDS, auto immunity deficiency syndrome. Basically the infection of these viruses can just sit around and the person is a carrier but does not have AIDS but they do have HIV, or what happens more often is they go on to develop AIDS. The virus does attack white blood cells as the previous person stated. Once someone has full blown AIDS they can no longer fight of any infection. They generally fall prey to pnemonia.
895065
Hi buddy,\n\nThe HIV virus is a very fragile virus that gets easily killed on drying or contact with ordinary toilet soap or even very dilute spirit.The world wide fear of this infection is not because it gets easily transmitted or that its a tough virus to kill.Its just because the virus attacks the patient's immune system. Death in an HIV infected person comes in the form of other diseases that attack the person when his body's defence mechanisms are in a weak state.\n Human saliva is not demonstrated by research to contain enough load of virus as to cause infection to another person ingesting it. There is a theoretical possibility of the virus getting transmitted thru deep kissing, if the kisser has a mouth ulcer. The virus in that case has a (very small) chance to enter the body of the individual thru this open wound in the mouth. Still the virus may not survive the variable pH levels and salt concentrations of the human saliva.   And all the more, the probability of this type of  transmission is less than 0.01% . In day to day life that kind of probability is considered as ZERO chance...!  Hence we, healthcare workers don't consider saliva as a potential source of infection. Like wise, the chance of a mosquito transmitting the virus is somewhere near 0.004%..!!\n\nRegarding Web sources on AIDS, the United Nations' website is the ultimate knowledge bank ... Log on to www.unaids.org and find a wealth of info and links.\nAll the best.\nBye.
214942
No, HIV needs a live body to survive.  Once someone has died, the virus will die soon after.
546596
not valid at all. there are tens of thousands of studies that reinforce the idea that HIV is the cause of AIDS. the virusmyth people are only serving to weaken HIV prevention efforts by destroying the public trust in health providers (public, private and otherwise).\n\nthe National Institutes of Health have a factsheet to repsond to the HIV denialists (who rank down there with Holocaust deniers in terms of credibility).\n\nhttp://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm Read it and think it over.
633402
Stop worrying.  Absolutely not.  HIV dies as soon as it hits the air.  Water kills it.
1140011
releasing a deadly virus into a population that can kill millions of people .......more deadly than a few rockets or machine guns
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HIV is a retrovirus that attacks Helper-T-cells and macrophages.  Its viral RNA is reverse-transcribed and incorporated into these cells' DNA.\n\nMost cells, when invaded by viruses, place viral proteins on their surface combined with major histocompatibility complex proteins that show immune-system cells (generally cytotoxic T's, if memory serves) that they are infected and should be destroyed.  HIV-infected cells, however, do not do this.  The HIV virus prevents it from happening, but I cannot remember how.\n\nUpon initial infection, the virus replicates significantly and causes the well-known flu-like symptoms, but your immune system is able to fight it and keep it under control and restore you to health while the virus enters a dormant or "latent" state.\n\nFor some reason (which either I do not know or modern science does not know) the virus becomes active and begins replicating.  But it does so in a truly remarkable way.  Remember, the DNA of infected Helper-T's and macrophages contains HIV DNA.  This viral DNA is incorporated into an area of the cell's DNA that is activated and transcribed whenever the cell is called upon to perform its function as an immune cell.  Basically, HIV not only attacks the immune system, activation of the immune system causes more production of HIV virus.  This explains why IV drug users who share needles progress to AIDS (helper-T count below 200)  much more quickly.....their immune systems are exposed to so many different pathogens that the HIV virus is replicated at a much higher rate.\n\n...at least, this is what I recall way back from immunology in dental school.