A Scary Thought

[Minister Masket]

Hands up those who know what the biggest killer in the world is?
No, not drugs, not bullets. No, not even the United States.
Actually the correct answer is Malaria, that rather nasty disease spread by mosquito bites. It kills more people than heroin, AIDS and Uncle Sam combined. Why is this?
Yes it's the mosquito doing it, being able to spread Malaria anywhere a mosquito can live, mostly in hot climates.
Now consider AIDS, a really rubbish disease that not only can't live outside a host for more than 10 seconds, but then doesn't kill you. It instead destroys your immune system and lets something else come along to give you an early appointment with the Grim Reaper.
However, it is still one of the most contagious diseases around without a cure, but thankfully isn't transferred by mosquitos, because the mosquito's gut destroys it.
Unfortunatly, viruses are brilliant are building resistances to practically anything that stops them.

When the day comes that AIDS finds a way to survive living in a mosquito, we may be in real trouble.

[Norse]

That is one of the scary facts about infections and bugs, like all other creatures, they evolve.

Many have a belief that using prescribed drugs does not do the human body any good, as this takes away the emphasis from the human's own bug-fighting immune system, thus leading the human body under-developed to fighting viruses by themselves.

But then again, I dont mind having a few colds, at the comfort of knowing that I do not have cholera.

[Wisse]

Hands up those who know what the biggest killer in the world is?
No, not drugs, not bullets. No, not even the United States.
Actually the correct answer is Malaria, that rather nasty disease spread by mosquito bites. It kills more people than heroin, AIDS and Uncle Sam combined. Why is this?
Yes it's the mosquito doing it, being able to spread Malaria anywhere a mosquito can live, mostly in hot climates.
Now consider AIDS, a really rubbish disease that not only can't live outside a host for more than 10 seconds, but then doesn't kill you. It instead destroys your immune system and lets something else come along to give you an early appointment with the Grim Reaper.
However, it is still one of the most contagious diseases around without a cure, but thankfully isn't transferred by mosquitos, because the mosquito's gut destroys it.
Unfortunatly, viruses are brilliant are building resistances to practically anything that stops them.

When the day comes that AIDS finds a way to survive living in a mosquito, we may be in real trouble.

then consider that a every 3 seconds someone in asia dies because of aids...
then the malaria bugs are trouble...

[riggable]

Hands up those who know what the biggest killer in the world is?
No, not drugs, not bullets. No, not even the United States.
Actually the correct answer is Malaria, that rather nasty disease spread by mosquito bites. It kills more people than heroin, AIDS and Uncle Sam combined. Why is this?
Yes it's the mosquito doing it, being able to spread Malaria anywhere a mosquito can live, mostly in hot climates.
Now consider AIDS, a really rubbish disease that not only can't live outside a host for more than 10 seconds, but then doesn't kill you. It instead destroys your immune system and lets something else come along to give you an early appointment with the Grim Reaper.
However, it is still one of the most contagious diseases around without a cure, but thankfully isn't transferred by mosquitos, because the mosquito's gut destroys it.
Unfortunatly, viruses are brilliant are building resistances to practically anything that stops them.

When the day comes that AIDS finds a way to survive living in a mosquito, we may be in real trouble.

then consider that a every 3 seconds someone in asia dies because of aids...
then the malaria bugs are trouble...

Do they Die of AIDS? or do they die of some other disease that is helped along by the AIDS disease in the first place?

[Guiscard]

Hands up those who know what the biggest killer in the world is?
No, not drugs, not bullets. No, not even the United States.
Actually the correct answer is Malaria, that rather nasty disease spread by mosquito bites. It kills more people than heroin, AIDS and Uncle Sam combined. Why is this?
Yes it's the mosquito doing it, being able to spread Malaria anywhere a mosquito can live, mostly in hot climates.
Now consider AIDS, a really rubbish disease that not only can't live outside a host for more than 10 seconds, but then doesn't kill you. It instead destroys your immune system and lets something else come along to give you an early appointment with the Grim Reaper.
However, it is still one of the most contagious diseases around without a cure, but thankfully isn't transferred by mosquitos, because the mosquito's gut destroys it.
Unfortunatly, viruses are brilliant are building resistances to practically anything that stops them.

When the day comes that AIDS finds a way to survive living in a mosquito, we may be in real trouble.

then consider that a every 3 seconds someone in asia dies because of aids...
then the malaria bugs are trouble...

Do they Die of AIDS? or do they die of some other disease that is helped along by the AIDS disease in the first place?

They die of another disease... Pneumonia is a frequent killer. AIDS destroys the immune system.

[wrightfan123]

Thanks for bringing this up dude. There may not be a cure, but there is a solution. http://www.nothingbutnets.org let's you purchase mosquito nets to be sent to people in Africa. How sweet is that!

[Norse]

Thanks for bringing this up dude. There may not be a cure, but there is a solution. http://www.nothingbutnets.org let's you purchase mosquito nets to be sent to people in Africa. How sweet is that!

Waste of money.

[Stopper]

When the day comes that AIDS finds a way to survive living in a mosquito, we may be in real trouble.

I can't be bothered checking for sources for what I'm about to say, as I'm tired, but I'm sure the British government had for many years funded AIDS research to the tune of tens of millions of pounds per year, while cancer research had never received a penny of government funding, despite, obviously, killing far more people per year (in the UK, anyway.)

I think the reasoning behind this was, apart from the fact that tens of millions of pounds every year are raised by charities for cancer research anyway, the fear that AIDS could one day become more easily transmissible, and it therefore posed a much greater potential threat than cancer - to the working-age population, anyway.

I could be wrong though, or more likely, ten years out-of-date.

[unriggable]

Somebody needs to experiment with hippo white blood cells, as they can take out so many undesirables. (including this one)