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Aug 22, 2004 9:30:58 GMT -5
Post by Igu on Aug 22, 2004 9:30:58 GMT -5
I saw a report ...2 years ago about epidemics in europe. they said that a mutation occured in europeans during the middle age... in response to the plague.
-It is present in 30% of the europeans. -AIDS acts the same way as the plague by attackin the "killer cells". -30% of europeans can't get AIDS.
Could you please confirm this information?
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AIDS
Aug 22, 2004 19:13:34 GMT -5
Post by alex221166 on Aug 22, 2004 19:13:34 GMT -5
I saw a report ...2 years ago about epidemics in europe. they said that a mutation occured in europeans during the middle age... in response to the plague. -It is present in 30% of the europeans. -AIDS acts the same way as the plague by attackin the "killer cells". -30% of europeans can't get AIDS. Could you please confirm this information? I believe the information is true. I believe that the populations who were affected the most by the plague are the least likely to be infected by the AIDS virus. I believe that it has something to do with the surface receptors of the white blood cells (the same receptors that worked upon the Yersinia Pestis apparently work upon the HIV, or something like that). I didn't read this whole article, but I think it will answer your questions www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/interview.html
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AIDS
Aug 23, 2004 15:40:01 GMT -5
Post by Igu on Aug 23, 2004 15:40:01 GMT -5
I read in your article that you must have both mutations to be untouchable, if you have it in only one allel it slows the hiv infection by 2.
I couldn't find the 30% number, But with what I've read it is reduced to 15%.
That's why in Usa or in south africa blacks get more infected by the desease than whites (european descent).
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izabet
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Aug 25, 2004 8:41:43 GMT -5
Post by izabet on Aug 25, 2004 8:41:43 GMT -5
Shark, I work with an organization that studies AIDS and its relationship to int'l development. What you are saying is very true.
The facts are that in order to support their families, men in most of Sub-Saharan Africa must leave home to earn money, usually in agriculture or trades. They frequent prostitutes and taken on mistresses, and then pass the disease to their wives and children. As these males die off, the employment pool lessens and the women lose rights to the land their husbands owned. They end up marrying other non-blood relatives (brothers-in-law usually). If they are ill and do not remarry, they go in to prostitution to support themselves and their children, thus continuing to spread the virus. It's a cycle that is only going top sping more and more quickly, until the population is no longer productive, except in managing those dying of AIDS.
A side issue: a former boyfriend of mine was a scientist who developed AIDS drugs. He told me that the drugs being sent to Africa by big pharma are virtually useless since they were designed for older or different strains of HIV and are not effective against what is being spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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AIDS
Aug 30, 2004 13:07:48 GMT -5
Post by zemelmete on Aug 30, 2004 13:07:48 GMT -5
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Sept 1, 2004 1:11:22 GMT -5
Post by nordicyouth on Sept 1, 2004 1:11:22 GMT -5
So does this mean that 30 % or some roundabout percentile of Europeans will survive AIDS even if infected? If so, why aren't researchers studing what makes these people immune.
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