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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / March 2008Keep taking the pills
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7287792.stm>: ----- Begin Quote ----- HIV can survive the apparently effective onslaught of antiviral drugs for years by hiding away in the body's cells, research shows. Sweden's Karolinska Institute found low levels of dormant HIV in patients seven years after they started - and responded well to - standard therapy. [...] Keith Alcorn, of the HIV information service NAM, said scientists were looking at approaches to treatment that could flush out HIV from cells. He said: "This research shows that, for the time being, people with HIV need to take treatment indefinitely because current drugs cannot reach this pool of dormant virus. ----- End Quote ----- I should remind everyone that NAM is a mouth piece for the HIV/AIDS industry. There's a long list of drug companies and HIV/AIDS self-interest groups that fund it here: <http://www.aidsmap.com/cms1177632.asp>.  Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 4,806 days and counting... > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7287792.stm>: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > self-interest groups that fund it here: > <http://www.aidsmap.com/cms1177632.asp>. IIRC, the T4's are the "first guard" of the human immune system. Their "job" is to wake up other more powerful immune-system cells at the itsy- bitsiest sign of dangerous intrusion. So the part that makes me scratch my head vigorously is... How does such a less-than-really-alive being as a virus know to take out the first guard, which of course keeps the "big guns" of the immune system dormant and no danger to the virus? It also seems as if the virus remains dormant if there is anything in the bloodstream that keeps the more powerful cells "awake". Of course, the whole idea is for these more powerful immune-system cells to remain dormant most of the time. If they have to stay awake most of the time, then this in and of itself would weaken the entire system. It seems like the "old soldier" in BlackJack... if you catch seventeen, you're "beat and can't hit". SignatureSincerely yours, Scotty P.S. http://scotty.secretsgolden.com
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