Rare Drug-Resistant HIV Found in NYC

[Danielle Foxxx]

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Rare Drug-Resistant HIV Found in NYC

A rare strain of H.I.V. that is highly resistant to virtually all anti-retroviral drugs and appears to lead to the rapid onset of AIDS was detected in a New York City man last week, city health officials announced on Friday.
"This case is a wake-up call," Dr. Frieden said. "First, it's a wake-up call to men who have sex with men, particularly those who may use crystal methamphetamine. Not only are we seeing syphilis and a rare sexually transmitted disease - lymphogranuloma venereum - among these men. "Now we've identified this strain of H.I.V. that is difficult or impossible to treat and which appears to progress rapidly to AIDS."

"Risky behavior may be even more dangerous now, since there is a chance of infection with a virus we may not be able to treat," said Dr. Jay Dobkin, director of the AIDS Program at Columbia University Medical Center.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - LET'S ALL BE SAFE AND SANE AT THIS TERRIBLE TIME FOR HUMANITY AND LET'S PRAY THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

PLEASE PTACTICE SAFE SEX[/b]

[Hugh Jarrod]

Scary isn't it?

[Bigwilly]

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Rare Drug-Resistant HIV Found in NYC

A rare strain of H.I.V. that is highly resistant to virtually all anti-retroviral drugs and appears to lead to the rapid onset of AIDS was detected in a New York City man last week, city health officials announced on Friday.
"This case is a wake-up call," Dr. Frieden said. "First, it's a wake-up call to men who have sex with men, particularly those who may use crystal methamphetamine. Not only are we seeing syphilis and a rare sexually transmitted disease - lymphogranuloma venereum - among these men. "Now we've identified this strain of H.I.V. that is difficult or impossible to treat and which appears to progress rapidly to AIDS."

"Risky behavior may be even more dangerous now, since there is a chance of infection with a virus we may not be able to treat," said Dr. Jay Dobkin, director of the AIDS Program at Columbia University Medical Center.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - LET'S ALL BE SAFE AND SANE AT THIS TERRIBLE TIME FOR HUMANITY AND LET'S PRAY THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

PLEASE PTACTICE SAFE SEX[/b]

Funny you say that Danielle, when you yourself practice unsafe sex in all your porn movies sweetie.

[thanos]

Don't be daft. Which is more unsafe, condom based sex with someone who's HIV status is unknown or condomless sex with someone who's HIV status is known?

Danielle, Vicki and Joanna have explained this plenty of times.

[Mugai_hentaisha]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050212000809990004

Rare Drug-Resistant HIV Found in NYC

A rare strain of H.I.V. that is highly resistant to virtually all anti-retroviral drugs and appears to lead to the rapid onset of AIDS was detected in a New York City man last week, city health officials announced on Friday.
"This case is a wake-up call," Dr. Frieden said. "First, it's a wake-up call to men who have sex with men, particularly those who may use crystal methamphetamine. Not only are we seeing syphilis and a rare sexually transmitted disease - lymphogranuloma venereum - among these men. "Now we've identified this strain of H.I.V. that is difficult or impossible to treat and which appears to progress rapidly to AIDS."

"Risky behavior may be even more dangerous now, since there is a chance of infection with a virus we may not be able to treat," said Dr. Jay Dobkin, director of the AIDS Program at Columbia University Medical Center.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - LET'S ALL BE SAFE AND SANE AT THIS TERRIBLE TIME FOR HUMANITY AND LET'S PRAY THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

PLEASE PTACTICE SAFE SEX[/b]

Thanks for the info Danielle. I appreciate it. You take care of yourself Danielle.

Trust me people this Meth is scary shit i have seen it made and to me Garbage that has been left out in summer is safer to use. the way it tears up your body it is no wonder HIV would spread so rapidly. Jeesh people wake up and get with it....its your existience here!

[Danielle Foxxx]

I am going to start ignoring stupid people from now on...LOL
Trying to bring up a stupid old discussion... I can't please everyone sweety, this posting was not for my benefit, I am just trying to get awareness out there, and if you don't appretiate someone trying to watch out for you - FUCK YOU! I've had enough of you... GIve me a call we'll take your anger to the next level and settle this "man to man" LOL
What a low life!

Anyways, I didn't realize that someone already beat me to posting something about this already.


Sorry

[Felicia Katt]

Did everyone else notice how Bigwilly joined the site today and did his very first post just to attack Danielle? That's stalking, not talking. very VERY uncool.


Felicia

[Danielle Foxxx]

Felicia he is probably one of the uneducated people who migrated from The SFredbook posts...That web site is nothing but a buch of guys giving reviews on escorts, it gets like that in here sometimes, but most people in here can carry an inteligent conversation...

[Mugai_hentaisha]

Well i hope I can be counted in the "ones who can carry an intelligent conversation.

i saw his post when I posted and thought about saying something but it seemed to me that he just wanted to pick a fight.

Although he was bitching you out about not using a condom in your scenes i just wonder how many times he has worn one during sex and how many times has he not?

btw danielle love your avatar there makes me wish it was me with you . :P

take care and have fun

[Felicia Katt]

Rare HIV strain needs more study
Group says alert on danger of new virus was 'unnecessarily alarming' but useful.

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
The New York Times


NEW YORK – On the day after the announcement that a rare strain of the AIDS virus was found in a New York City man, scientists said much work needed to be done to assess just how dangerous the virus is.

But, they quickly added, anything that scares people away from using methamphetamine and having unprotected sex with strangers is still a useful public-health measure.

Even doctors who joined New York City health officials in making the announcement on Friday said that it may have been misinterpreted, because it is impossible to say that an especially virulent bug is spreading when only one person is known to have it, and that person has been followed for only a few weeks.

"Every medical center in a major metropolitan area will have cases like this," said Dr. Roger J. Pomerantz, an AIDS specialist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "You've got to really prove something like this before you go on CNN and scream about a 'super strain.'"

Project Inform, a 20-year- old group in San Francisco providing information about AIDS and treatment, called the reports "unnecessarily alarming to the public."

In particular, experts said, it needs to be seen whether the same virus behaves just as virulently in any other men infected by the New York man. It might be less dangerous in someone with a different genetic makeup or less of a drug habit.

City health officials said only that they had two people trying to locate the infected man's sexual partners.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a prominent AIDS researcher and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he had seen cases where two sexual partners had been infected by the same strain and "one does reasonably well, and the other progresses fulminantly" - meaning the immune system of the second person collapses rapidly.

What is not clear yet, several experts said, is whether the disease progressed so rapidly because the virus was strong or the patient was weak.

About 1 percent of all people infected are "slow progressors," who take decades to get sick. The reasons are unknown, but some have genetic mutations that disable the receptors on the outside of the CD-4 immune system cells to which the virus attaches.

At the other end of the spectrum will be 1 percent to 2 percent who are "fast progressors," who go to full-blown AIDS - meaning very low numbers of CD-4 cells and opportunistic infections like pneumocystis carinii pneumonia - in months. The average time between infection and AIDS is seven to 10 years.

The man in New York, who is clearly a fast progressor, has a "dual-tropic" strain of the virus, which means it can attach to two types of receptors, which are nicknamed the R5 and X4 receptors, on the outside of the CD-4 cell.

In a majority of people who get infected, said Dr. Robert C. Gallo, a co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, the first infections are attached to the R5 receptors. Only after several years do the X4 receptors kick in, and then the patient often goes downhill quickly.

In a very small number of patients, the primary infection is on the X4 receptors, and they are often - but not always - fast progressors.

But such patients are seldom-studied, so it is not known why the virus attaches there.

Pomerantz, who studies interactions between drugs and the virus, said there was some evidence that the infection moves faster in alcohol and heroin abusers, but little is known about whether amphetamines, which are chemically very different, suppress the immune system or affect X4 receptors.

By contrast, Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner, director of prevention of sexually transmitted diseases for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said he thought amphetamine use could lower CD-4 cell counts and could have contributed to the speed of the New York man's infection.

But that would mean his drug use, not the virus, was to blame.

The patient's virus was also resistant to treatment with three of the four classes of anti-retrovirals.

That is unfortunate, experts said, but hardly unknown: Thousands of patients in the United States have viruses with varying degrees of drug resistance