Human immunodeficiency virus
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that is generally believed to cause AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). The HIV infects cells in the human immune system such as helper T cells and macrophages. As a result the immunity system of the infected person becomes deficient and death is usually the result of bacterial or viral pathogens.
The number of infected individuals is currently estimated at 43,000,000 worldwide. Only in 2001, 5,000,000 people got infected from HIV and 3,000,000 people died.
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Origin of HIV
To find out the origin of HIV, we have to think back down to 1930s in Africa. The SIV(Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) had evolved to HIV. Originally, The SIV was only found in anthropoid such as chimpanzees in the 1930s. There are a few people who got infected in 1930s, but people didn't worry about this disease at that time. So, since that time, through the various transportations and indiscretion of sex sensations, HIV easily spread throughout the world. In 1981, The first patient of AIDS had reported to United States' medical world. Following this, in 1983, Luc Montagnier found HIV at the first time at laboratory. At the beginning of all HIV researches, the terms for HIV were different in each country. In France, they had called HIV as LAV, United States had called HTLV-III or ARV. But after a few years later, both countries realized that those viruses are same as HIV. So, since that time, they integrated the terms for HIV.
Infection of HIV
In the United States, over 900,000 people who are infected by HIV has been reported since 1981. The Incubation period of HIV is up to 10 years. 50% of patients died sooner than 10 years and the other 50% of patients get killed anyways even if they survived over 10 years. There are many ways that you can get HIV. 1. Non-regulated sexual relationship(This raises up your chance to get HIV). 2. Having sex with same gender. 3. HIV contaminated injection. 4. HIV contaminated blood given from infected person. 5. If an infected mother becomes pregnant, the baby get infected, too
Symptom of AIDS
Many infected people don't know they have the virus until 10 years from the time they got infected. Sometimes, the incubation period is short, like a month. After 5-10 years of having HIV causes a fevers, chills, diarrhea, and weight loss. It seems same as cold and the HIV infected person looks like a totally normal healthy individual.
Treatment of AIDS
The most significant point in AIDS is that there is no way to cure it so far. What makes difficulties to master the clue for AIDS? Anyone doesn't know. Because of this horrible point, some people says the HIV was brought by aliens. The only two ways to treat AIDS are to prevent the complications causing AIDS and another way is to slow down the thriving of HIV. But this is not a fundamental method to master AIDS. Now days, many scientists over the world are researching to find out the effective curative means. For instance, many scientists have found treatment from many countries, but no country has made it to the commercial scale yet. Also, the effectiveness of curative means are doubtful.
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Challenges to the HIV/AIDS hypothesis
A number of scientists have challenged the hypothesis that HIV causes -- most notably, Dr. Peter Duesberg, professor of Molecular and Cell biology at Berkeley. He argues instead that AIDS is caused by chronic recreational drug use, antiviral drug therapy, and malnutrition. In his 2003 paper[1], he supported his assertion with the following evidence:
- AIDS is simply a chronically suppressed immune system, and the immune system can be suppressed in a number of ways, including chronic recreational drug use, malnutrition, and antiviral drug therapy;
- Of the 34.3M people in the world with HIV, only 1.4% contracted AIDS in 2000;
- One study reported 4,621 cases of AIDS without HIV;
- 100% of the AIDS patients diagnosed as of 1983 were chronic drug users. 96% used Nitrate inhalants as an aphrodesiac.
- Since 1987, the prescription of antiviral therapies has been widespread among anyone found to have HIV antibodies in their system. Antiviral therapies work by suppressing the replication of genetic material -- as such, they also suppress the replication of genetic material in the human body, and are known to directly suppress the immune system;
- A 1994 British Concorde study concluded that the AIDS drug AZT did absolutely nothing to prevent AIDS, and increased mortality in patients by 25%;
- Even in advanced HIV cases, less than 1/500 of the body's T-Cells are infected by HIV;
- Viral infections are most infective prior to an immune response to suppress the virus. However, HIV tests test for the antibody response to HIV, which demonstrates that the body has already immunized itself. The virus itself cannot be directly isolated;
- HIV infection in the US has constant at 1M from 1985 until the writing of the article. AIDS increased from 1981 to 1992 and has declined since.
- If viral, AIDS should spread randomly throughout the population -- but AIDS in the West remains confined almost entirely to homosexuals and drug users;
- Under the Bangui definition of AIDS, applied only in Africa, a person is diagnosed with if they have diarrhea, lethargy over a month, weight loss of 10%, and a cough. HIV is not required for an AIDS diagnosis. Malnutrition and poverty conditions are known to have the same effects.
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