Imagine how farther along we'd be on HIV treatment if we hadn't had someone in the White House who decided HIV was a 'gay people disease' and just shrugged. Every time I hear someone praise Reagan all I can think about is how sat on his hands and did nothing while a hundred thousand Americans died - 30,000 in the last year of his presidency alone - because of bigotry on the part of him and the Christian Right, who ar…
60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV
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#32Is there are reason bone marrow has to be inside bones. Couldn't you graft a bone marrow organ next to the liver or something?
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#33I wonder if they can evolve this into an autologous stem cell transplant: take a patient's own bone marrow sample, do the genetic mutation, and insert it back? It avoids the graft-versus-host issues of using stem cells from another person, so it should be reasonably safe (though still a major procedure)
> It avoids the graft-versus-host issues of using stem cells from another person
Not sure that's the issues here. I think the major risk comes with completely wiping the original immune system, before implanting the new seed cells. Apart from the implications in any means of killing "half the body", people are existentially defenseless against any pathogen around them, for a few weeks.
I think this procedure will never be reasonably safe, for anyone who isn't rolling their last die.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Got it through sharing needles” was the 90s version of “got herpes from a toilet seat.”
Um, no? Unlike with toilet seats, tons of people got it this way. There were even cases of hospital outbreaks due to insufficient sterilization of reusable syringes.
Citation needed.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Got it through sharing needles” was the 90s version of “got herpes from a toilet seat.”
Even these days, when cops accidently pike themselves with needles when dealing with addicts, they go to HIV center for preventative drugs. So that they, a cop who got piked exactly once, do not get HIV.
Yes, obviously.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um, no? Unlike with toilet seats, tons of people got it this way. There were even cases of hospital outbreaks due to insufficient sterilization of reusable syringes.
Citation needed.
Is it really that hard to find?
About 270 patients, mostly children, were nosocomially infected with HIV subtype G in seventeen hospitals in 1988–1989. The infection was mainly transmitted between children through contaminated catheters and needles, and from children to mothers through breast-feeding.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Citation needed.
Is it really that hard to find? About 270 patients, mostly children, were nosocomially infected with HIV subtype G in seventeen hospitals in 1988–1989. The infection was mainly transmitted between children through contaminated catheters and needles, and from children to mothers through breast-feeding. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905505/
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