Re: GEN: Elite HIV Patients Mystify Doctors

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Aug 17 07:53:10 2006


The old "Flea Flicker" eh? I should have known.

Art

At Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Joe wrote: >
>Art: I thought this had been solved? Dates back to gene mutation from
>European days of Black Plague. Saw it on PBS awhile back. Joe C
>
>art fougner, md wrote:
>
>> As many as one in 300 HIV patients never get sick and never suffer
>> damage to their immune systems and AIDS experts said on Wednesday they
>> want to know why.
>>
>> Most have gone unnoticed by the top researchers, because they are well,
>> do not need treatment and do not want attention, said Dr. Bruce Walker
>> of Harvard Medical School.
>>
>> But Walker and colleagues want to study these so-called "elite" patients
>> in the hope that their cases can help in the search for a vaccine or
>> treatments.
>>
>> "What in the heck is going on in people that successfully control this
>> virus?" Walker asked a news conference held at the 16th International
>> Conference on AIDS.
>>
>> "If we can figure out how people are doing that, we can try to replicate
>> it."
>>
>> http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-08-16T215038Z_01_N16248997_RTRUKOC_0_US-AIDS-ELITE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
>>
>> Art
>>
>> --
>> art fougner, md
>> "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
>>

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art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton




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