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Mainstream Scientific Study Concludes HIV Does Not Cause AIDS[/font-family]The Report.....
HIV can attack the host via a free-floating virus that infects the host's immune cells directly, or infect a single cell and then pass the virus from cell to cell, which is called cell-to-cell transmission.
My views.....
So ok, we are told by our parents and teachers don't believe everything you read, but my question is, why would highly respected scientists face ruin if they were not confident on what they were saying?
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From a position of total ignorance, I have always considered that HIV attacks the immune system. By working to foil the HIV attacks we can, I presume, delay or prevent the opportunist class of ailments known as AIDS.
My understanding is that AIDS is not, of itself, a disease. Rather it is a collection of opportunist infections and other nastiness that takes advantage of a depleted immune system and kills the patient.
Am I close, or just plain wrong?
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"Quote:"timmy wrote on Sun, 25 October 2015 20:36From a position of total ignorance, I have always considered that HIV attacks the immune system. By working to foil the HIV attacks we can, I presume, delay or prevent the opportunist class of ailments known as AIDS.
My understanding is that AIDS is not, of itself, a disease. Rather it is a collection of opportunist infections and other nastiness that takes advantage of a depleted immune system and kills the patient.
Am I close, or just plain wrong?
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This has always been my long held understanding... like others I would imagine. To educate myself and dig deeper I found this very Simple to understand short doco on Youtube. Its half hour long but if you have the patience it does do really good Layman speak! hehe
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Exactly Timmy.
AIDS is not a disease. It is a term to describe the effects/condition on/of the human body caused by HIV.
HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus which causes AIDS = Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
The virus (HIV) attacks the body's immune system, leaving it weak and unable to defend itself, which is called AIDS. The condition of AIDS allows any usual or normal infection to run unopposed and do far more damage than it could if your immune system was working. A simple cold can kill you.
HIV is the disease (virus) which leaves you too weak to survive even a common cold, a condition called AIDS. Usually, an AIDS victim contracts multiple colds, flu, and other viral infections, until they simply waste away from the multiple infections. They often contract even rare and unusual infections. If they are exposed, they end up getting it, whatever it is.
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Okay, I don't want to seem pedantic. (Actually, I am pedantic, but I don't want to seem so.)
Technically, a virus is not a disease. A virus can cause a disease. The vast majority of viruses in our bodies don't cause any disease at all. Some of them kill bacteria in our guts.
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The headline is misleading and doesn't accurately represent what the body of the report actually says. Maybe whoever wrote the headline didn't really understand it, or maybe they were trying to put forward their own agenda.
To summarise the basics:
HIV is a virus that travels from person to person.
It attacks certain cells that are part of the immune system.
With a damaged immune system, other opportunistic infections can occur.
The question addressed by this study was:
Once in the body and established in some of the immune cells, is the death of immune cells caused by infection of more cells from free-floating virus or by virus passed during direct contact between the immune cells?
The answer was that the cell death was mainly caused when the virus went directly from one immune cell to another.
Thus, contrary to what the headline says, the study does not conclude that HIV does not cause AIDS. It concludes that the main pathway for cell death occurs when the virus is passed from directly cell to cell.
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