From: Enigl@aol.com
Date: Thu Mar 06 1997 - 22:11:39 MST
In a message dated 97-03-05 13:26:52 EST, you write:
<< Nevertheless, the vast majority of HIV positive people eventually
>>die of opportunistic infection, a fact that needs explaining. >>
What?? Why? This is after all how most (99%?) viral diseases kill i.e.via
bacterial secondary diseases.
<<Kaposi's sarcoma is almost non-existent in people with a functioning immune
system. Similarly, most people don't get fungus growing on their lips and
tongue, but AIDs patients do. This has to do with a broken immune system,
not with HIV infecting their lips. Neurons don't divide but other nervous
system cells, like glia, do.
>
I agree. This normal for a retrovirus like HIV when causing diseases. That
is not even controversial anymore, see Temin and Baltimore, 1975 Nobel prize
winners.
Davin
Davin C. Enigl, (Sole Proprietorship) MEAS
President-Microbiologist
Microbiology Consulting, Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Points (HACCP), CGMP, and Validations
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March 6, 1997
7:57 pm
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