Originally posted by Hitman:
Don't believe everything you read, I agree. But that also may apply to everything you have ever read about the disease...I don't pretend to have any idea what the truth is, but this is another interesting link....
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/aids.htm
personally, I think there may be some truth to this argument....
This was very interesting but nothing I haven't heard before.
This article you point to is talking about the suspected origins of HIV/AIDS. It doesn't question their existance. The article states that there are various retroviruses that cause Human Immunodeficiency.
The terms HIV has always been used as a general term to describe an UNKNOWN virus that scientists are still working to found out how it came to be and how to stop it. And we know a lot about HIVs. And the article is for doctors and not the average layman. Since I took college I'm able to follow the line of reasoning without being knocked over by the lingo. And the lingo is simply very general when referring to HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome which is different from a virus cuz it's the visual symptoms of a virus). Obviously they're two sides of the same coin...and I can see how doctors in research can assume that there is just one virus doing all the dammage.
But it has been brought to the general publics attention that viruses mutate and change over time. This change can be partly attributed to the drugs given patients. Just like it has been proven that the flu has mutated several thousand times because of the antibiotics being overly prescribed to people and the people not finishing out the prescriptions. Herpes has so many forms it has to be numbered and is also sexually transmitted.
Every fall a lot of people all over the world experience the flu and doctors don't know which virus caused it cause there happens to be millions of different species of virus!!! The point doctors should be focusing on is not whether something exists but how to fight it!!!
Oh and btw...I know I'm never getting this particular any line of HIV that causes AIDS because:
A> I don't have promiscuous sex
B> I don't take blood transfusions
C> I don't come in contact with human bodily fluids in my line of work.
D> I don't share needles with people
E> I don't work with monkeys or animals that harbor weird viruses...(eyes her kitty cat suspiciously)
Thanks for the interesting article, Hitman.