Is it true that the genetic makeup of white europeans makes them less susceptible to HIV than black africans?

Question

Is it true that the genetic makeup of white europeans makes them less susceptible to HIV than black africans?

Answer 1

No. Not true at all.

Answer 2

No.

The sexual educations of the Sub-Sahara Africans and Europeans tend to be different, as does $$ for health care, prevention, etc.

I had heard some study that made it seem that the uncircumcised p***s was supposedly MORE susceptible to infection; but I don't think it was a legit study.  That being said; Americans and Jews are the only ones routinely doing that anyhow; so its hard to prove one way or the other.

Answer 3

Nope.

Answer 4

Yes, it is apparently true.  Some people are so averse to acknowledging any differences in the races, they miss the obvious ones.  There were plagues that swept across Eurasia, such as measles, mumps, small pox, and plague .  I believe it was plague or black death that helped put some resistance in the surviving populations to AIDS.  Most native Africans developed some immunity to Malaria and that results in them having increased likelihood of sickle cell anemia but they didn' t get exposed to most of the diseases that spread through Eurasia until recent times.  The same is true of the people of the New World.  They also were not resistant to European/Asian diseases and most of their population was wiped out before the settlements of Jamestown.

Answer 5

No. Its mere racist propoganda. Its no more true than some Canadian Scientist creating Aids to kill black people. Or that Some Chinese man has the cure but won't release it.

Answer 6

No, that is not true...at least 3 factors come into play that may account for higher %age of cases in countries on the African Continent...

1. Insufficient health education and awareness

2.  Failure to circumcize

3.  Cultural acceptance of anal s*x among heterosexuals [the veins in lining of the a**s lie at the surface and are easily ruptured, thus providing a quick avenue for infection

Answer 7

There are individual lines in both white european and black african races that are less susceptible to HIV than the average person.  Just to give a couple of examples,

a study of Nigerian s*x workers found that some's immune systems were able to recognize, fight, and beat HIV irregardless of mutation but the researchers weren't able to recreate that immunity in others.  Also, I vaguely remember a documentary about a study of descendants of survivors of the Black Plague in the UK that showed some had developed immunity that was passed on genetically which was thought to be relevant to AIDS research.

Answer 8

Ask Rock Hudson.

Answer 9

Actually its the contrary!! Somee African prostitutes, have contracted the HIV more than once, and recover from it!

Still no news of the medical team onsite to examine the situations, but they have showed adaptations to the current strain. Also, its not because they are 24 millions HIV positive in Africa, that they are more succeptible, but its because of their life habits, that are less educated. So this is what play against them, not because of their genetic make-up!!

Answer 10

It has been shown, according to Nova, that HIV and AIDS attack the body by the same route as the Black Death.  Not by fleas, but by how they attack the individual cells.

This was discovered by finding g*y men from San Fransico whose friends had all died of AIDS and then testing their blood and finding that it was not affected by the virus.  They then traced these mens families back to small vilages in England, in the case I remember, where they still had the church birth and death records and some other family records and where some of the survivors of the plague still had descendants alive.  They found that the immunity comes from being born with a particular gene mutation that had up to that point (I have not heard of any since, or of the disease mutating around this gene protection which it could) had only been found in North-West Europe, ie those areas affected by the plague.  It was found back then that some people got sick from the plague, but survived.  Others never got it at all.  They walked around carrying out the dead and surely exposing themselves to it more than anyone else because they had no real protection and no one was allowed to leave a village once the disease hit.

It seems that if you have the gene rom one parent you will get HIV, but you will survive, but if it from both then the gene will protect you completely.

Of course, I never trust lab results.  I still have the old picture of the urine sample cup with the label filled out  in red water soluble pen, partial smudge,but clearly having John Doe's name on it, with the line "Congradulations, John Doe's pregnant!"

Answer 11

It may not be true but the statement is logically flawless