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Chuckie
25-09-2009, 12:41 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/24/MNNM19S3NR.DTL

Bill Hicks - 'There is going to be ****ing in the streets'.
Kawacabbage10
25-09-2009, 12:47 PM
Bizzare...just made a Hicks quote and the kids on Airplanes thread !
Phil D. Rolls
25-09-2009, 02:27 PM
I think this could be another false dawn. The sample size was very small, and it is not possible to rule out coincedence at this stage. If 100% of the people on the drug had remained symptom free it might have been a bit more impressive.
Woody1985
25-09-2009, 02:32 PM
Whatever happened to the guy that was 'cured' after being diagnosed.
Phil D. Rolls
25-09-2009, 02:37 PM
Whatever happened to the guy that was 'cured' after being diagnosed.

I hope he wasn't run down by a bus, that would be nearly as ironic as getting run down by an ambulance.
Chuckie
25-09-2009, 02:48 PM
Whatever happened to the guy that was 'cured' after being diagnosed.

I found this which is an interesting read.

http://aidsblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/analysis-what-andrew-stimpson-case.html
Woody1985
30-09-2009, 10:32 AM
I found this which is an interesting read.

http://aidsblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/analysis-what-andrew-stimpson-case.html

Hey, forgot to say, I read over this when you posted the link. It was quite interesting.

Just thought I'd let you know it wasn't ignored.
joe breezy
30-09-2009, 01:39 PM
The sample was only a few from being statistically insignificant.
The difference was 30 people out of 16000. 30 people more were infected who didn't take the vaccine, hardly proof it works.

Both vaccines have been tested before and neither of them worked, then they put the vaccines together and there's still no real proof they worked, just that 30 people more who didn't take the vaccine got infected.

Given that there are loads of other factors that affect transmission the study doesn't warrant any attention whatsoever, amazing that it got on the news.

Other factors include; if the infected person is recently infected the risk of transmission goes from 0.1% chance of getting HIV from one episode of sex to around 8% chance of transmission from one episode of sex.

So put the trip to Thailand for free love on hold. In the meantime you are still very unlikely to get HIV in the UK if you are heterosexual unless African immigrants take your fancy.