Life expectancy decreasing ?

[Ridlyn]

Oh I guarantee a cure for AIDS in a 100 years. Harper I agree with you on KMAN.

[molsen]

Originally Posted by Tuskatappaja

Actually I would be more worried about AIDS, that would decrease life expectancy a lot.
I don't see there will be a cure to it for at least 100 years.

based on what?

[Tuskatappaja]

Originally Posted by molsen

based on what?

Well Im very interested in biosciences and been reading a lot about HI-Virus and also have some friends who are actually researching cures for it.

They are not very optimistic.
Right now we see only drugs that will lenghten life of HIV positive people but nothing that could cure it wholly.
This virus is too **** complicated. Even if you can destroy the viruses in blood, you can't do nothing about infected human cells, which will some time produce more virus. Well in theory we could remove the infected tissue if we could find it precisely but if its nervous tissue (like brain) then its fat chance.

Actually most viruses are unbeatable by modern medicine but also they are not very dangerous. Like influenza.

[molsen]

interesting

Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV

of course, some conspiracy folks claim that HIV actually doesn't lead to AIDS, which is really caused by the drugs used to treat HIV

[Tuskatappaja]

Originally Posted by molsen

interesting

Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV

of course, some conspiracy folks claim that HIV actually doesn't lead to AIDS, which is really caused by the drugs used to treat HIV

Well Im not one of those idiots, I actually know what HIV is and what it does.

Thats a great enzyme but it hasn't been tested thoroughly.
There are others too, like the one being developed in Finland.
But testing them will take years

Maybe 100 years that I said is an over exaggeration, maybe not