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2004-08-09 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve White 2004-08-09 3:25:48 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Debby Group make some wonderful products as well.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-09 4:53:47 PM|| 2004-08-09 4:53:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm pretty much in agreement up until the last sentence on the extended article. "...mutating into newer and more lethal forms."
Not going to happen. HIV is very prone to mutation, even more than flu or the cold virus, however, that does not *increase* lethality, it *decreases* it.
"New" diseases have predicatable life cycles. When they begin, they are terribly deadly, but over time, the deadlier strains are weeded out by not being xmitted as much as the less deadly strains.
150 years ago, syphillis, for example, was a horrific killer, the terror of Europe and most of the world. But over time it weakened until finally an effective treatment came along, which accelerated its weakening. With antibiotics, it just became an annoyance.
HIV has already become a chronic, rather than acute disease in the US; but in the third and fourth world, it is just beginning its cycle. And there, there are disease "multipliers", that both help in its spread and lethality.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-09 5:05:09 PM|| 2004-08-09 5:05:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 the "cocktails" that kept it from being the death notice it once was in the U.S have also led to complacency among the high-risk (i.e.: gay) groups. Lack of an adequate profit motive will ineveitably postpone a vaccine.

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-09 5:08:39 PM|| 2004-08-09 5:08:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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