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Has HIV really been invented? please serious answer.?

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why is it so hard to completely prevent it from replicating and destroy it. thank you

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  1. Microbiology is an insanely difficult science. There are no 'simple cures', a cure, vaccine or other treatment takes a long time to develop.

    Think of it like this: Say you want to make a cure for HIV. How are you going to do it? You have no idea, right? Not a clue where to begin? Or what sort of things might fix it? The scientists that are attempting to develop treatments will feel the same, except they are more knowledgeable (obviously). HIV is a very resilient and tough virus, which means that it is harder to destroy.


  2. "HIV was made in a lab". One of the biggest conspiracy theories of the late 20th century... but now well and truly debunked. Like Bird Flu from poultry, and the newly discovered Hendra Virus from bats and horses... HIV started out as a case of Zoonosis...

    (Wikipedia- A zoonosis or zoonose is any infectious disease that is able to be transmitted (by a vector) from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis).

    And from where? Chimpanzees. Probably not through the sexual route that we most know... more likely though the African practice of eating "bush meat" - chimp flesh - where the blood of infected animals entered cuts on the hands of the butcher. Or from bites from infected animals: dental hygiene is not as big in the animal kingdom, and blood in mouths more common.

    And when did it start? In mapping and graphing the RNA mutation required to get from Simian Immune deficiency Virus (SIV) to Human (HIV), they can get pretty accurate: they've pinpointed it to the early 1930's. For HIV to look like it does now in humans, and knowing what SIV looks like in chimps (who famously share 99% of our DNA)... scientists were able to graph it back and modelled the change rates, to work out when the first case of suitably mutated SIV had to have hit humanity. The first contamination where the strain happened to be compatible enough to infect a human. From 1930-something on, it lay quiet in small communities, until it hit a state of unseen epidemic in Africa... then crossed to the Western world in the 80's.

    But that doesn't mean it wasn't killing people before then: armed with the last 25 years of knowledge, they have looked back through some archival medical cases, accessed old blood samples, even exhumed a corpse or two - and have found small pockets of HIV related deaths, as early as 1959. It was there, just quietly going about its business... usually suspected to be some sort of cancer.

    If you want to read more about this? The ABC online had a story about it about 2 years ago, second link below...

  3. The main reason that there is currently no cure for HIV is that the virus changes so much.  One treatment or vaccine may kill one or more forms of the virus, but have little effect on other forms.

  4. i think - all concept of a hiv has been invented, read those forums for more info

  5. The main reason is that HIV is highly susceptible to mutation and replicates rapidly.

    This means that it quickly evolves different strains which outwit both the immune system, and attempts to develop drugs to fight it. By the time drugs are designed, developed, and tested to fight HIV in a particular way, it has already evolved enough strains which are not affected by that drug.

    There are plenty of labs researching HIV, and they know a great deal about what the virus is and how it attacks the immune system. If people really believe it's a myth, why don't they volunteer for HIV research? They could really make history by volunteering to be infected with it and proving it's a massive conspiracy among thousands of scientists and millions of people around the world.

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