Medications
Scientists Find Way to ‘Disarm’ AIDS Virus After Gamers Breakthrough
Needless to say this has been an interesting week in the health field regarding HIV/AIDS. As mentioned in an earlier blog this week, “Gamers” just solved an HIV Puzzle in 3 weeks that baffled scientists for ‘over’ a decade. Amazingly, this week ‘scientists’ announced they have found a way to disarm the AIDS Virus.
I find that very curious that their discovery happened so quickly ‘after’ gamers embarrassed scientists last weekend. What the scientists discovered this week and announced is; (HIV) is unable to damage the immune system if cholesterol is removed from the virus’s membrane.
“It’s like an army that has lost its weapons but still has flags, so another army can recognize it and attack it.” said one scientist.
The question now is to investigate how to use this way of inactivating the virus and possibly develop it into a vaccine. A 2009 study in Thailand involving 16,000 ‘volunteers’ showed for the first time that a vaccine could prevent HIV infection in a small number of people, but since the efficiency was only around 30% researchers were forced back to the drawing board.
HIV is spread in many ways, during sex, on needles shared by drug users, in breast milk and in blood, so there is no single easy way to prevent infection. The virus also mutates quickly and can hide from the immune system, and attacks the very cells sent to battle it. The race for a cure or medical breakthroughs is heating up. I still vote for “gamers” to lead the way or at least keep the pharmacutical companies, governments and scientists honest with information that seems to magically appear every time a new breakthrough occurs. I’m happy to finally see cracks in the “War on HIV/AIDS”.
I’m Tom Thayer & I’m just saying. 
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/20/scientists-find-way-to-disarm-aids-virus/#ixzz1Ynjo5r8k
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