Robert,
So now I have one more question. What planet are these folks living on? I can
understand disagreements over data interpretation, etc., but if what you all
have told me is true, the AIDS skeptics are the same sorts of agenda-driven,
science blind dogmatic folk they aim to criticise.
That's what I get for reading too much of one side of the issue.
Kamilla
P.S. The only thing I know of Ebola I learned from the book, "The Hot Zone".
Did anyone ever figure out where it comes from?
Lanciotti, Robert S. wrote:
> 1. Yes, the most notable are the human T cell leukemia viruses types 1&2
> (causes T cell lymphoma).
>
> 2. HIV has been isolated an enormous number of times by an inestimable
> number of individuals (We did it in our laboratory on a daily basis starting
> with whole blood from AIDS patients).
>
> 3. This is a very complex issue. This question relates to the fact that
> very low concentrations of circulating HIV are detectable in many AIDS
> patients. This leads some to naively conclude that the virus therefore
> could not be responsible for the disease. This is a false conclusion that
> greatly oversimplifies what occurs during a viral infection. Viruses may
> not directly kill human cells, yet their replication may still be able to
> cause significant disease. The simplest way to envision what occurs in the
> pathogenesis of many viral diseases is that the virus may not cause direct
> damage to tissue, but rather may initiate a chain of events involving
> numerous body systems (inflammatory cells etc.) that ultimately lead to
> disease and even death. Bear in mind that we know that a very small amount
> of Ebola virus can kill, yet we have very little hard data demonstrating
> that the virus can destroy any human tissue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kamilla Ludwig [mailto:kamillal@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 12:34 PM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: AIDS questions
>
> I've been looking and reading the past few days and there are still some
> questions by the AIDS/HIV skeptics that I haven't been able to find
> answers to:
>
> 1) Are there any other known retroviral diseases in humans?
>
> 2) Is it true that HIV itself has never been isolated, only secondary
> markers? (I believe the case is similar with Hepatitis C)
>
> 3) Is it true, as they contend, that the amount of virus apparently
> present is insufficient to cause disease?
>
> I appreciate anywhere you can direct me to get answers to these further
> questions.
>
> Kamilla
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