BOSTON TOO, HAS 'SUPER HIV' CASE

NY Post ^ | 2.14.05 | associated press

[gopwinsin04]

BOSTON TOO, HAS SUPER HIV CASE

Massachusetts doctors have reported several HIV patients with resistance to some of the most commonly prescribed treatments, rasing further concerns about a new, possibly drug resistant strain of the virus.

The patients resistance to drug treatment is similar to a New York City case that has sparked widespread concern amont public health experts, the Boston Herald reported.

'There is global concern that there may be an increasing amount of patients that have a resistant virus,' said Dr. Greg Robbins of Massachusetts General Hospital.

[gopwinsin04]

San Francisco, Los Angeles next etc..

[BobS]

"Time for a gay pride parade, huh?"

I never had anal sex with a woman. I'm healthy and clean.

[gopwinsin04]

And 'dont engage in homosexual bugchasing with hundereds of NYC strangers while on a drug abuse spree..'

[FourtySeven]

IMHO, this is a bit of hype. A truly "super HIV" would be one that could be transmitted by casual contact, unlike the version we have now.

The apparent drug resistence evolution is interesting though. I'm not sure how much research has been done in the area of viral drug resistance. Given the nature of a virus, I'm not sure how easily it could evolve such defenses. After all, the way the drugs work isn't on the virus itself, per se, (like many antibiotics), but rather on the way it reproduces.

If true, this is a very interesting development for virologists I'm sure.

[dfwgator]

The bug chasers should be ecstatic.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I would put an additional spin on this article. This is being depicted as "Super AIDS". OK. But really this is very analagous to other situations where we've seen drug resistance emerge.

We have MRSA or methicillin resistant Staph Aureus.

We have emergence of antibiotic resistance in various TB strains.

This is somehow being spun as being some unexpected development. Seems to me this is just what one would expect - you throw antibiotics at a virus and eventually you select out strains that are resistant to said antibiotic. One might even ask the question of why hasn't this happened sooner?

[dennisw]

Boston is so proud of its "diversity".

[gopwinsin04]

Could the crystal meth have mutated the virus somehow in NYC?

[gopwinsin04]

Isnt it a bit alarming that all of these new cases are coming forward at the same time?

[twas]

Soon the two refrains we'll hear smothering the debate are 1) AIDS is NOT a gay disease and 2) The gay community needs more money to fight this [not a gay] disease.

[gopwinsin04]

No funding, no peace!

[shellshocked]

"- do not engage in unprotected sex with strangers "

Mind if I make a small change:

"Do not have sex with strangers."

[MamaTexan]

so how many in the last year?

(shudder)

NOT something I want to dwell on!

and no longer subject to 'archaic' things like morality and decency.

Shoot, I am!

Sooner or later, the Lord's gonna call me home. (Which sometimes doesn't scare me half as much as my Mom waiting there with the "I know I taught you better than that!" lecture. :)

[Nowhere Man]

That's because AIDS is not a disease, but a Civil Rights status.

Had this been 1935 or even 1955 instead of 2005, I'm sure there would be strict controls on AIDS patients of not downright quarantine altogether. I know if you get TB, the local health department monitors you, or they should, to make sure you're taking your meds and so on. Two years ago, I cut my left hand open, it got infected with strep and I had to have surgery. I was in hospital for 5 days. I remember my surgeon said that I could have went home in 3 days but I had to say the extra two because Infection Control had to clear me before I could go.

[superiorslots]

Leprosy was dealt with in the same way. People with leprosy were taken from their homes(someytimes in shackles) and were never allowed to return. One hospital is still open in Arkansas and people have lived their entire lives there. An article about this was in National Geographic several months ago. One women was 80+ years old and has lived there since her teens.

[uncbob]

Excellent
Now the Homosexual lobby can DEMAND a gazlion more dollars be spent on AIDS and the drug companies will be ESTATIC

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I wonder if the "bug chasers" will be in such a hurry to willfully contract the disease now. Before, when they had a 10-15 year window to play the poor victim, they must have seen something poetic in their martyrdom. Now it's just suffering and death.

And the Leftists in this country have the nerve to shake an angry fist at tobacco and fast food and demand government control and confiscatory taxes!? Unbelievable.

[fella]

Sounds as if they're having trouble closing the barn door long after this horse has left.

[Jimbaugh]

Time is running out.

[uncbob]

AIDS is the only Venereal Disease you can contract and become a sympathtic if not heroic figure

You don't see Syphilis or Gonorrhea patients being lionized like the homosexual crowd