Today I read an interesting article, which shows the level of culture in our country.
I remembered Bush who, visiting Haiti, he was wiping his hands on Clinton's shirt after shaking hands with some black citizens. Look, he's not alone, there are some like him in Europe too. But beyond that, HOW it's not much to laugh at.
The chimpanzee does not HOW. All attempts to infect him, since the 80s, era HOW, they failed. The chimpanzee does not cause any other diseases common to humans, or if it does them, makes them much rarer. These diseases have very cute names: mental illnesses, Alzheimer, autism, autoimmune diseases, cancer (of any 10 even less often in chimpanzees in captivity!), type II diabetes (very rarely in chimpanzees) etc. It also causes other types of malaria, but that's another discussion.
People do HOW, unfortunately. But not all of them. There is nothing, no virus, bacteria, but no insecticide, pesticid etc., to kill the entire population, all individuals. Because there is variability, some are resistant. Human populations, isolated for thousands of years, they are sensitive differently to different diseases. That is, in some populations there are people who are resistant, in others they do not exist or are very rare. About the deletion of a cytokine receptor, delta 32, which makes it difficult for the virus to enter cells, much has already been written. About the fact that this deletion is most common in northern Europe, almost completely absent in Africa and Asia, it is also known. In Africa, HIV infection has a fulminant course.
In southern Europe it is quite rare. There are no studies in Romania, according to my knowledge, but the studies carried out in Italy show very interesting things. It appears that this mutation does not confer the expected protection in southern European patients, which could have important implications.
There are also more fanciful hypotheses to explain the distribution of this mutation, among which her loss in the south would be the inheritance of the Roman Empire. The Romans would have spread certain diseases, to which delta-32 carriers would have been more sensitive. There is also the hypothesis of the legacy of the Middle Ages, when the black death decimated the population (starting from the 14th century). Europeans are the happy descendants of the survivors of this epidemic, therefore they would be more resilient. But it seems that resistance to this disease is more complicated than it seems. More data (although not all that express my vision) i'm in "Civilization".
In short, resistance to HIV infection and then the development of AIDS would be related to the dynamics of the immune response. The chimpanzee does not have delta-32, and yet... There could be many other causes of this phenomenon, but another interesting aspect is the fact that other primate species, less related to man, which also have similar biochemical aspects (suggested by the existence and frequency of some diseases, more precisely, diabetes, but not only) develops a disease in which immunodeficiency occurs, similar to HIV, but caused by another virus. That was a prediction of my theory, which made me happy, although it is about the harm of some relatives. Why is this happening?, the answer in “Civilization…”.
It's not about that, although it would have a connection…
I am trying to turn this idea into experiments that lead to studies and therapeutic results, eventual. How interested those responsible for such a thing are, however, is difficult to describe. But that's another discussion. It's not about positive thinking, ci of biochemistry.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104351710
I wrote this in response to an event:
Human solidarity should help change the situation in Africa. Bill Gates came up with the idea to support studies of diseases specific to the III world, because they are not studied by Westerners, because they don't bring money. Organize such a contest, in which you can participate with new ideas for treating specific diseases. A very good idea, which humiliated some white humanists (including me). I confess I didn't think about it. But now I realize that no matter how terrible, diseases are one of Africa's minor problems. If we want to help them, to restore their dignity, more is needed. But unfortunately, if Africa is a huge ghetto because of cultural disinheritance, we also have a similar phenomenon in Europe: ROMA. At least, their diseases are like ours…
