Origin of AIDS

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BLeGal2 said:
got it. :)
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So I still got to ask you, what did you mean in this post below? Can you clarify? What did you mean by AIDs as an recessive?

BLeGal2 said:
Chimps can have an AIDs-like illness but it is not the same AIDS that humans have. If a human has AIDS as a recessive and gets bite by a chimp who is infected, it can activate it, but it is not from them.
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naisho said:
So I still got to ask you, what did you mean in this post below? Can you clarify? What did you mean by AIDs as an recessive?
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I learned something about how a person can have AIDs but it can be unactivated. My teacher referred to it like a recessive gene to help us understand. he said that one of the ways it could be activated could be by being bite by an infected chimp.
 
lol vampire theory
 
Jiro said:
lol vampire theory
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yeah right! It sounds like a horror movie plot.

I think there is movie that starts like that, but I don't remember the name. The chimps are used in biomedical research and become infected with some kinda killer zombie virus or something and of course they bite a lab tech! lol. :giggle:
 
BLeGal2 said:
I learned something about how a person can have AIDs but it can be unactivated. My teacher referred to it like a recessive gene to help us understand. he said that one of the ways it could be activated could be by being bite by an infected chimp.
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I kind of get what you mean now. That's the issue with AIDs. When will you die.
I believe we went in this discussion recently around here.

When you get infected from however it was first transmitted, it doesn't mean you're going to die. A secondary chimp bite could potentially "activate" a dormant virion but really it's only that the new transmission from the bite is active. A human would need to have been infected with the same strain as the bite first.

Getting bit with HIV-2 while you have HIV-1 doesn't mean you're activated now. Getting bit with HIV-2 while you have HIV-2, you've introduced a second chance for it to activate.

Your teacher was giving you the recessive example to show that HIV goes dormant when introduced into the bloodstream.

Normally, we don't have HIV DNA in us if we're initially clean :cool2: it only comes once we're infected, or if passed from a mother to her unborn.

After initial infection, the virus can either go acute or chronic and dormant, which Jiro provided examples in another thread regarding Magic Johnson and his case.
 
naisho said:
I kind of get what you mean now. That's the issue with AIDs. When will you die.
I believe we went in this discussion recently around here.

When you get infected from however it was first transmitted, it doesn't mean you're going to die. A secondary chimp bite could potentially "activate" a dormant virion but really it's only that the new transmission from the bite is active. A human would need to have been infected with the same strain as the bite first.

Getting bit with HIV-2 while you have HIV-1 doesn't mean you're activated now. Getting bit with HIV-2 while you have HIV-2, you've introduced a second chance for it to activate.

Your teacher was giving you the recessive example to show that HIV goes dormant when introduced into the bloodstream.

Normally, we don't have HIV DNA in us if we're initially clean :cool2: it only comes once we're infected, or if passed from a mother to her unborn.

After initial infection, the virus can either go chronic and dormant, which Jiro provided examples in another thread regarding Magic Johnson and his case.
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Oh okay! I see now! All of us in the class were confused. Thanks for clearing it up. I love your "if we're initially clean :cool2: " lol.
 
OK. Thank you all.

Moderators, purpose here is served if you would kindly lock the thread. :)
 
Yeah. I remember when I was in high school years ago and a student was doing a presentation on AIDS. He mentioned monkeys.
 
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