Teenager is able to control her HIV infection without drugs

[Dryson]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/20/health/teenager-hiv-functional-cure/index.html

This is really cool because her body has evolved to control the infection. Could this mean that small amounts of HIB are airborne like a cold that allowed her body to immunize against the infection?

 

[{ Emilia }]

The article is interesting but your comments make no sense at all.

 

[JES]

Looks to me that treating it early on from birth helped keep the virus knocked down a peg, and kept them there.

I've heard how some HIV infectees will infect others, with syringes or needles with HIV infected blood, as a practical joke of some sort (though I think of this more of an attack than anything else).

Perhaps being victims of these sorts of violations might not be a death sentence after all, if treated right away.

 

[sojourner]

I've heard how some HIV infectees will infect others, with syringes or needles with HIV infected blood, as a practical joke of some sort (though I think of this more of an attack than anything else).
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Whaaa?? Practical joke??? Um, you're not thinking of the whole "welcome to the world of aids" urban myth are you?

 

[Scout101]

yeah, pretty clearly assault at best, attempted murder if you want to push it...

 

[JES]

I've heard how some HIV infectees will infect others, with syringes or needles with HIV infected blood, as a practical joke of some sort (though I think of this more of an attack than anything else).
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Whaaa?? Practical joke??? Um, you're not thinking of the whole "welcome to the world of aids" urban myth are you?

Unfortunately, the "pinprick"/"welcome to the HIV club" is actually one of those urban myths that is true.

 

[Scout101]

And since it's not really a funny joke i'd assume most of the 'jokers' are getting their HIV meds in prison now?

 

[JES]

I'd assume, assuming they get caught.

 

[sojourner]

I've heard how some HIV infectees will infect others, with syringes or needles with HIV infected blood, as a practical joke of some sort (though I think of this more of an attack than anything else).
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Whaaa?? Practical joke??? Um, you're not thinking of the whole "welcome to the world of aids" urban myth are you?

Unfortunately, the "pinprick"/"welcome to the HIV club" is actually one of those urban myths that is true.

Nope.

Not really.

Nope.

Still No.

And definitely no stories of it being done as a "practical joke".

It's an urban myth.

 

[{ Emilia }]

I've heard how some HIV infectees will infect others, with syringes or needles with HIV infected blood, as a practical joke of some sort (though I think of this more of an attack than anything else).
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Whaaa?? Practical joke??? Um, you're not thinking of the whole "welcome to the world of aids" urban myth are you?

Unfortunately, the "pinprick"/"welcome to the HIV club" is actually one of those urban myths that is true.

Source?

And I don't mean a handful of isolated incidents.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Snopes took care of this one ages ago:

The important news first — this isn't happening. In the sixteen years we've been tracking this legend since its first appearance, no confirmed AIDS-laden needle attacks on moviegoers have been reported in Bombay, Hawaii, Dallas, Paris, or anywhere else in the world. We know of only two related incidents, neither of which proved to involve any deliberate intent to infect an innocent victim with HIV: A Louisiana man sat on a needle in a theater in Baton Rouge in December, 1996, and sued the facility over the incident, but there was no note welcoming him to the world of AIDS or any indication of his contracting any infection. An October 2005 report from Athens, Georgia, involved a woman who said she sat upon a needle that had been duct-taped to a movie theater seat, but since then she also has evidenced no symptoms of HIV infection. (In the latter case, although the syringe contained a substance that appeared to be dried blood, it was too small a sample for police to be able to determine what it was or whether it carried a disease.)

In other words, there have been a couple of incidents involving needles in movie theaters, but no one's ever gotten sick from them, and they had nothing to do with HIV/AIDS.

 

[sojourner]

Snopes took care of this one ages ago:

You don't say?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Whoops. I didn't hover over all your links, sorry.

 

[JES]

Whaaa?? Practical joke??? Um, you're not thinking of the whole "welcome to the world of aids" urban myth are you?

Unfortunately, the "pinprick"/"welcome to the HIV club" is actually one of those urban myths that is true.

Source?

And I don't mean a handful of isolated incidents.

Actually, the source linked in the video I watched was the exact same link that Sojourner linked as well.

However, there is one case (albeit not random) which was true:

"There has been at least one verified HIV-positive syringe attack of the non-random variety. It happened in Australia in 1990, with the victim being a prison guard at Sydney's Long Bay Jail. Gary Pearce opened a security gate for an inmate known to be HIV-positive and in doing so turned his back for a second. He felt a jab in his buttock. He turned to knock a blood-filled syringe away just as the inmate, Graham Farlow, shouted "AIDS" and ran off.

Pearce rushed to a nearby office where the wound was sterilised. To no avail however. Despite the 1-in-200 chance that a stick injury from an HIV-infected needle would produce a positive result, he tested HIV positive two months after the attack. Pearce died on 30 August 1997 of an AIDS-related illness. Farlow had died in 1991."

However, other than that, it seems there are no substantiated attacks, and that it is actually by all means false.