Over the past few weeks I talked about pandemic
diseases, gave information on how the diseases were spread and given symptoms
of these diseases. Majority of these diseases that are deadly comes from some
type of animal. If you look over the blogs you would see the link between
animals, humans and diseases. For instance, bats carry a lot of diseases and
are very harmful to humans. When bats eat or drop their feces onto the food we
eat this is a major way of spreading their diseases. Scientist tries to catch
and isolate when this happens. For another, when humans travel into the
tropical forests and somehow get infected and carry this unknown infection to
other humans. Now this last statement, scientist cannot catch and isolate this
particular infection in time. With areas that are overpopulated it would be
almost impossible to contain or eradicate a fast spreading disease. HIV/AIDS
for example, over twenty years and there is still no cure. Now in our society
that calls HIV/AIDS a chronic disease because it can be “managed”. Here is a
thought, HIV/AIDS is known to mutate, what make them think it will not mutate
to a super strain. With saying that, there has been breaking news on a man who
had full blown AIDS and had a bone marrow transplant. The bone marrow donor
happen to be in the one percentile; immune to AIDS. At this moment around the world scientists are
watching this particular man closely. (http://www.examiner.com/article/cured-of-aids-and-hiv-by-bone-marrow-transplant-with-specific-genes-for-immunity)
Just pulling this article up you will find two more
men being cured from AIDS through a bone marrow transplant. (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/07/26/two-more-patients-hiv-free-after-bone-marrow-transplants)http://www.examiner.com/article/cured-of-aids-and-hiv-by-bone-marrow-transplant-with-specific-genes-for-immunity
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/07/26/two-more-patients-hiv-free-after-bone-marrow-transplants
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