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Man Cured of AIDS
Dekron
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The man received a bone marrow transplant from donors who are resistant to the HIV virus. He was given high doses of radiation and chemo to disable his immune system so the newly implanted marrrow cells would survive.
The man is completely cured and shows no sign of the AIDS virus. Doctors aren't sure if it is simply a fluke, or if this is the possible way to a cure.
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Here's to hoping, but that's genuinely amazing.
would be an amazing find if it all checks out in the long run
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
Damn it, they beat me to it!
LA Lakers star Magic Johnson was cured of AIDS a decade ago. Why has the cure he aparently received been held back from everyone else???
Magic Johnson was never cured. He never had AIDS. He has HIV. He has the money to purchase the highly expensive anti-HIV drugs, but he also takes an affordable-by-anyone supplement which "boosts his immune system".
Magic Johnson was never cured. He never had AIDS. He has HIV. He has the money to purchase the highly expensive anti-HIV drugs, but he also takes an affordable-by-anyone supplement which "boosts his immune system".
Yes, he has some really great anti-HIV drugs. So great, in fact, that the drugs prevented him from passing on the HIV to his wife and unborn child even before he knew he had HIV and before he even took the miracle drugs. That's how great those drugs are!!
Seriously, while I rarely subscribe to popular conspiracy theories, there has always been something a little shady about Magics' "HIV".
H.I.V actually only has a 10% to 15% transmission rate. Although some statistics say its about 1 in 1000. Many promiscuous people are exposed to the disease and never knew there risks. Also only 25% of children born from mothers with AIDs and HIV recieve the disease. Mind you there are as some studies seem to show, genetic factors involved.
Personally I'm very excited about this development
Don't want to shit in anyone's Wheaties here, but did anyone read the whole article? If so, did you notice how the rest of the medical community was stonewalling? It's too expensive yet, It's too early to tell, and so on. Even if this works, I suspect that it'll fall out of the limelight quickly because there's always more money to be made treating a terminal illness than curing it.
I don't eat Wheaties, but remember in South Park, it took the injection $180,000 of Magic Johnson's money to cure Kyle and Cartman of Aids.
Unfortunately, you're more than likely correct.
Um, yeah.
Assuming this is not a fluke as mentioned...
We are talking about a cure that is highly dangerous and exceptionally weakening to the body AND it requires recieving transplants of a type that already has a waiting list several miles in length. Bone marrow transplants are in extremely high demand due to some forms of cancer and diseases such as Sickle Cell Anemia, and suitable donors are few and far between. If this potential cure goes into production, it is all but guaranteed to be left only as an option for desperate 7 figure income patients.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Hemingway
Thats what I thought, the cure sounds far too expensive for most people, let alone poor African communities.
O_o o_O
Then again who really cares about the poor in Africa enough to deny themselves the possibility of a cure if your affluent? I would probably say, no one. Generally speaking the mechanism to spread the new genetic resistance is whats dangerous. Within a decade they will have designed mechanisms which are capable of spreading modified genetic code into your system safely. Then again we really have a lot to issues to iron out when it comes to that whole science.
Oh, you mean when the method of cure has reached the viability of also being used as a weapon?
Yeah, happens every time. Every medical breakthrough has also been a weapons development breakthrough. I don't see that changing anytime soon.