Saturday, December 20, 2008

What has befallen our great scientists that has failed the world come up with an HIV/AIDS Cure

What has befallen our great scientists that has failed the world come up with an HIV/AIDS Cure?
For decades, the deadly HIV/AIDS continue to claim millions of people as if science has been kept under the beds. Why is it that there is no cure yet?
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1 :
Well, there isn't any definite cure for HIV/AIDS because for each person who has AIDS, the makeup of the HIV is different. With each set of medicines that people with HIV/AIDS takes, the doctors have to change the dosage and what medicines according to each HIV makeup.
2 :
Because that virus destroys white blood cells that kill viruses and the antibodies for it only attract the white blood cell, it engolfs (eats) the virus but then the white blood cell explodes from inside, so there is no possible cure. Good luck with finding a cure though!
3 :
The HIV virus a tough cookie. It is a "super virus" because it mutates fast. Meaning if you create a cure or a vaccination, the virus mutates "evolves" to a new form that is immune to the medicine. By the way donâ€™t be fooled by thinking that the medical word has solved loads of other cures for maladies. Many very simple diseases continue to plague man. For example: the flu, staff infections, TB, polio, Small Pocks (a.k.a. Monkey Pocks, Cancer, etc.
4 :
HIV/AIDS is a clever little bug. It kills the CD4 T-lymphocyte (helper T cells). Without CD4, there can be no immune response. As of now, all of our best medicines are aimed at helping the body heal itself, not us healing the body (look at any chronic disease to know the truth of this statement). So the question arises: how do you help the body heal an infection, when it can't do anything on it's own? How do cure an infection that can't be attacked because it lies within the body's cells? To add insult to injury, there are at least 6 known strains of HIV. What kills one strain, makes another stronger, and produces yet another variation. And besides having to fight off the HIV, your body is now susceptible to any and all passing infections. It's not the AIDS that kills you, it's the common cold. That's why we haven't found a cure, or even a vaccine.
5 :
Arrogance and greed ( not just monetary ). They could have been where they are now in HIV/AIDS research twenty years ago.

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