Is it only a matter of time before Airborne Aids

[summit]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: jpeyton
I truly hope it goes airborne.

Then pharmaceutical companies will finally have a real incentive to invent a cure.

Right now it's much more profitable to sell drugs that keep AIDS patients alive and consuming a lot of pills. Inventing a cure for anything is never as profitable as inventing a drug that cures the symptoms.

More likely than not, a cure will probably come from a university research lab.

You're a nutcase and a conspiracy theorist.

Exactly, btw JPeyton what is your definition of cure? No detectable viral load, non-transmittable viral load because if you have a retrovirus you can't truely eliminate it since its essentially in your DNA. HAART cocktails do good work in eliminating most symptoms of the disease and transmission.

 

[BigDH01]

Originally posted by: Summit
AIDS is the name of the disease which comes from HIV. The mutations it would have to go under would have to in essense affect the protein coat to make it transmittable in air. The viral load you would have to transmit makes it almost impossible.

I believe it's actually glycoprotein gp120 that is neutralized by oxygen, but don't quote me (been awhile since virology). If gp120 can't bind to host cell, then the membrane (lipid, btw) is rendered useless and fusion and infection can't take place. The capsid proteins can survive oxygen fine I believe.

 

[Calculator83]

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: TruePaige
Man this thread is full of some dumb statements.

Guys...we're nowhere near a mutation of something like that.

Out of all the STD's out there, some of them many orders of magnitude older than HIV, none have ever gone "Airbone".

It only takes ONE, and time is not a factor of when,, I only used it to make the statement that it may be inevitable.

I betcha it takes more than one.

As for the chances of it happening I've got better odds of being killed by falling space shuttle debris.

Space shuttle Debris kill One person.. Airborne ""HIV"" kills EVERYONE.

Edit: Except Will Smith

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: BigDH01
AIDS doesn't become airborne, HIV does. HIV's envelope is rendered non-functional as per my understanding in oxygen rich environments. Without the envelope, the capsid cannot enter the cell and the virus cannot be transmitted.

get your logic out of this thread

 

[ViviTheMage]

wrong

 

[jjones]

Sorry, but this one's staying on the treadmill.

 

[paulxcook]

This thread is retarded.

It's only a matter of time before the earth plunges into the sun and incinerates.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: TruePaige
Man this thread is full of some dumb statements.

Guys...we're nowhere near a mutation of something like that.

Out of all the STD's out there, some of them many orders of magnitude older than HIV, none have ever gone "Airbone".

It only takes ONE, and time is not a factor of when,, I only used it to make the statement that it may be inevitable.

stop watching heroes and xmen and shit. mutations is not some magic shit that changes everything overnight. stop posting on atot and read a fucking biology book.

 

[SirStev0]

Why would it go airbourne? Evolution and adaptation come about due to a selective pressure... HIV seems to do pretty well as a blood born pathogen... Same reason we don't have airbourne rabies...

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
I truly hope it goes airborne.

Then pharmaceutical companies will finally have a real incentive to invent a cure.

Right now it's much more profitable to sell drugs that keep AIDS patients alive and consuming a lot of pills. Inventing a cure for anything is never as profitable as inventing a drug that cures the symptoms.

More likely than not, a cure will probably come from a university research lab.

I truly hope you're the first person to be infected if it does.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: mugs
This sums up just how fucked up you are. You want bad things to happen to people to prove your point.

The worst situations usually bring out the best in humanity.

The rest of the time, we're just trying to make a fast buck.

So you'd rather have the world in a state of dispair and ruin just so you can feel good about humanity? Kind of a fucked up way to think about things, don't ya think?

You're talking to someone who talks about the deaths of thousands of people in the style of a Mastercard commercial.

Pwnt.