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Iran unveils Aids herbal remedy
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Posted on 02/03/2007 5:49:04 PM PST by Lorianne

Tehran - Iranian health minister Kamran Baqeri Lankarani announced on Saturday that Iran's scientists have produced a herbal medicine to boost the human body's immune system against HIV/Aids.

"The herbal-based medication, called Imod, serves to control the Aids virus and increases the body's immunity," Baqeri Lankarani was quoted as saying on state radio by the official news agency IRNA.

"It is not a medication to kill the virus, it rather can be used besides other anti-retroviral drugs."

The drug was made after five years' of research and had been tested on 200 patients, said IRNA.

It said the drug was considered the fifth generation of medications to control HIV/Aids.

"This is a substance good for both Aids patients and those who carry the virus without showing the symptoms," project director Mohammad Farhadi told state television.

Disease spread by drug use

Farhadi said the medication would be tested on 3 000 to 5 000 Iranian patients in the next year to monitor its efficacy.

Baqeri Lankarani said the number of HIV/Aids cases in Iran stood at about 14 000 while 1 700 had died of the disease.

Last June, Iranian officials warned about the rapid spread of HIV/Aids infections in the country due to a surge in intravenous drug usage.

"If no action is taken against the spread of this disease as quickly as possible, the number of those infected will reach 100 000 by the end of the next Iranian year (March 2008)," said Iran's deputy health minister, Moayed Alavian.

Iran is believed to have at least two million regular drug users - and possibly as many as 3.5 million. Alavian said addiction was growing by about 8% a year.

Intravenous drug use is believed to be the main cause of HIV/Aids infection at 62.3%, followed by "unknown causes" at 27.9% and sexual contact at 7.4%.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aids; health; healthcare; herbs; hiv; immunesystem; iran; medicine; science; supplements

1 posted on 02/03/2007 5:49:05 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

I wonder if it works on goats and sheep?


2 posted on 02/03/2007 5:55:48 PM PST by TADSLOS (Iran is in the IED exporting business. Time to shut them down.)
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To: Lorianne

Bwahahahaha....

Newt's eyes and hummingbird's tongues....


3 posted on 02/03/2007 6:01:43 PM PST by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: TADSLOS
According to the noted Orientalist Sir Richard Burton, Iran was at the heart of what he called "Sotadic zone" and had been a hothouse of homosexuality since the dawn of history.
4 posted on 02/03/2007 6:07:00 PM PST by GSlob
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To: neverdem

ping


5 posted on 02/03/2007 6:20:15 PM PST by FairOpinion (Tell Congress: Work for Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Go to: http://www.TheVanguard.org)
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To: Lorianne
>>Disease spread by drug use<<

Ardent followers of the Religion of Peace cannot possibly get HIV/AIDS by passing local prepubescent boys around.

Go get 'em Mohammad!
6 posted on 02/03/2007 6:27:54 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

From: Boys of the Taliban
at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26199

...
There is a basic and common sense empirical human reality: wherever humans construct and perpetuate an environment in which females and their sexuality are demonized and are pushed into invisibility, homosexual behaviour among men and the sexual abuse of young boys by older men always increases. Islamic-Arab culture serves as a perfect example of this paradigm, seeing that gender apartheid, fear of female sexuality and a vicious misogyny are the structures on which the whole society functions.

It is no surprise that John Racy, a psychiatrist with much experience in Arab societies, has noted that homosexuality is “extremely common” in many parts of the Arab world....

...
In the dysfunctional and morbid paradigms of this culture, the idea of love is, obviously, completely absent from men's understanding of sexuality. Like the essence of Arab masculinity, it is reduced to a form of prison sex: hurting others with violence....

...
Islamist terror, therefore, is, in part, very much a release of the terrorists’ bottled-up sexual rage in connection to sexual frustration and desperation -- and to the humiliation connected to feelings of emasculation, which culminates in the act of striking out against “the enemy” and violating his masculinity. The inner workings of this mindset explain why Islamic terrorists consistently engage in sexual mutilation of their victims. ...


7 posted on 02/03/2007 6:44:56 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: TADSLOS

Apparently the treatment of giving the 'herb' to the goats and sheep prior to having sex with them has been unsuccess in Iran but it has done little to curb the bestiality. Since the men consider it a crapshoot in finding an attractive women when they are constantly covered up head to toe, at least they know when they have an attractive sheep. And the goats don't laugh at their pasty white skin and lack of adequate equipment.


8 posted on 02/03/2007 7:21:37 PM PST by bpjam (Never Give Up, Never Surrender (Unless James Baker gives you permission))
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To: Lorianne

Sorry, but this guy beat them to it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/03/wgambia03.xml

Hank


9 posted on 02/03/2007 7:37:44 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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