Saturday, September 8, 2012

AIDs died out

Would be possible to get rid of HIV/AIDs if all the people with HIV/AIDs died out?
Or would it somehow reappear?
Infectious Diseases - 5 Answers
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1 :
no yes
2 :
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3 :
"Would be possible to get rid of HIV/AIDs if all the people with HIV/AIDs died out?" -- No. All primates with SIV would have to die too. "Or would it somehow reappear?" -- We theorize that HIV originated from SIV. As long as SIV exists, the possibility for another HIV would also exist.
4 :
I would say, yes. Although HIV originated from Simian Immunodeficiency virus, which exists in monkeys and apes, it was able to cross species-species barrier only 3 times (lineages, M, N, O). Only M caused pandemic. It was extremely rare event. HIV-1 originated from chimpanzee's SIV. There are a handful of chimpanzees in the wild that have this virus. Other SIVs are very different and to successefully establish themselves in human population they have to change even more drastically than SIVcpz did. HIV-2 from sooty mangabeys crossed the barrier but did not cause pandemic. SIV contaminates human blood when people hunt monkeys and apes for food or slaughtering them as agricultural pests. If this practice ceases there will be even less chance for virus to reappear.
5 :
HIV-1 disappears if all carriers die. There is a wrinkle with HIV-it is very unlikely that it ever happens because many people who carry HIV will never get sick and diagnosed. They live as they never have been infected. They may serve as reservoir for virus for centuries to come. 1 There were viruses that went extinct because they were so virulent that they killed some population and themselves with it. 2 There are many viruses that co-evolved with us so that they are getting so suppressed in our body that they are always dormant and we never even know that there are there until we are immunocompromized. 3 Many viruses left DNA "fossils" in our genome. They passed stage two and they are extinct. HIV-1 goes by route 2. It may take million+ years to reach the co-evolution stage similar to that between apes and SIV- high viral load with no overt illness and another million+ years - general dormancy with rare outbreaks (like Herpes), and another million+ years-dormancy with almost no outbreaks (Eipsein-Barr), and another million+ years - extinction.

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