Does promiscurity lead to aids?

[PJKru]

Say that you have sex with one person and then you have unprotected sex with another person and then another person. Is it the combination of you have unprotected sex with these three people even though they dont have the disease the reason why you develop aids. or is it something that you can only contract whilst having unprotected sex with a person who has the virus already? In other words its passed on from person to person and there is no formula for generating the disease. Obviously in that case it would have a source.

[johnleemk]

Jeez, you'd have thought learning science for three years in secondary school, and maybe biology for another two years might have drilled something into our heads. The theory of spontaneous generation is simply wrong. AIDS does not come from nowhere. Promiscuity alone does not cause AIDS, although it helps spread it. AIDS is transmitted from one person with AIDS to another via sexual intercourse, sharing of needles, etc.

[DecentMerson]

it would be helpful to change the title of the thread from "...aids" to "...AIDS."

:)

[Thirdshifter]

Someone in africa screwd a monkey. The source of AIDS is from a Monkey.

A crocdile has eaten a monkey but it does't get AIDS. Doctors are now asking the crocodile how to build an immune system as strong as his.

The crocodile ate them too.

[PJKru]

haw haw haw.

[misled_youth]

haw haw haw.

Don't take this personally, but you seriously need to get laid.

Don't die a virgin.

[Thirdshifter]

haw haw haw.

Don't take this personally, but you seriously need to get laid.

Don't die a virgin.

or drunk.

[youngyew]

Say that you have sex with one person and then you have unprotected sex with another person and then another person. Is it the combination of you have unprotected sex with these three people even though they dont have the disease the reason why you develop aids. or is it something that you can only contract whilst having unprotected sex with a person who has the virus already? In other words its passed on from person to person and there is no formula for generating the disease. Obviously in that case it would have a source.
Haha, that's where people saw the "flaw" of evolution theory and said, "God created AIDS".

Where did the first human AIDS come from? Monkey.

Where did the first monkey AIDS come from?
a) some other species in hominidae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae) family?
b) mutation of an existent virus?
c) God

Scientists say (a) or (b), Kansas Board of Education says (c).

Sorry for the rambling and digressing, I was just getting annoyed with the debates in the US.

[digimushu]

haw haw haw.

Don't take this personally, but you seriously need to get laid.

Don't die a virgin.

or drunk.

...neither of which would happen since he professes to be a devout Muslim.

But seriously, before anyone has sex with anyone else, they should exchange medical status cards.

[Thirdshifter]

haw haw haw.

Don't take this personally, but you seriously need to get laid.

Don't die a virgin.

or drunk.

...neither of which would happen since he professes to be a devout Muslim.

But seriously, before anyone has sex with anyone else, they should exchange medical status cards.

or wear a condom.

[kintaro_kun]

is this a thread for medical jokes? :D :D :D :D

i remember south park's "jared has aids(AIDS)" episode, AIDS is finally funny! hahahahaha!

[iQing]

HIV

sharing needles, being the child of an AIDS carrier and sexual intercourse

sometimes you get AIDS by just having sex once, with the wrong person.

[el_empty]

trivia:

did you know you can get contract AIDS if you swallow at least two liters of an HIV-positive patient's saliva?

[burningBUTTERFLIES]

trivia:

did you know you can get contract AIDS if you swallow at least two liters of an HIV-positive patient's saliva?

Who wants to swallow someone elses' saliva in the first place? ^.^;;;

But that's something I haven't heard before. So it'll be alright to kiss a person infected with AIDS.

[DecentMerson]

HIV

sharing needles, being the child of an AIDS carrier and sexual intercourse

sometimes you get AIDS by just having sex once, with the wrong person.

just to put in some figures here, it's not for sure a 100% that a HIV positive mother during labour will give birth to a HIV infected child...

quoted from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#Mother_to_child_transmission

There is a 15?30% risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child during pregnancy, labour and delivery.[61] In developed countries the risk can of transmission of HIV from mother to child can be as low as 0-5%. A number of factors influence the risk of infection, particularly the viral load of the mother at birth (the higher the load, the higher the risk). Breastfeeding increases the risk of transmission by 10?15%. This risk depends on clinical factors and may vary according to the pattern and duration of breastfeeding.

[iQing]

trivia:

did you know you can get contract AIDS if you swallow at least two liters of an HIV-positive patient's saliva?

Who wants to swallow someone elses' saliva in the first place? ^.^;;;

But that's something I haven't heard before. So it'll be alright to kiss a person infected with AIDS.

or some people might like to swallow other body fluids of their partners.... errr

[iQing]

HIV

sharing needles, being the child of an AIDS carrier and sexual intercourse

sometimes you get AIDS by just having sex once, with the wrong person.

just to put in some figures here, it's not for sure a 100% that a HIV positive mother during labour will give birth to a HIV infected child...

quoted from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#Mother_to_child_transmission

There is a 15?30% risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child during pregnancy, labour and delivery.[61] In developed countries the risk can of transmission of HIV from mother to child can be as low as 0-5%. A number of factors influence the risk of infection, particularly the viral load of the mother at birth (the higher the load, the higher the risk). Breastfeeding increases the risk of transmission by 10?15%. This risk depends on clinical factors and may vary according to the pattern and duration of breastfeeding.


sorry, I do not have the link to this :

About 10 or 11 years ago in the US, there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn't test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever!

He was taken to UCLA to see what was going on and those tests showed
that he didn't have normal human DNA. In the human DNA we have 4 nucleic acids that combine in sets of 3 producing 64 different patterns that are called
codons. Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off, except for 3 which are the stop and start codes, much like a computer. Science always assumed that the ones that were turned off were old programs from our past. I've always seen them like application programs in a computer.

Anyway...this boy had 24 codons turned on - 4 more than any other human being. Then they tested this kid to see how strong his immune system was.They took a very lethal dose of AIDS in a petri dish and mixed it with some of his cells and his cells remained completely unaffected.

They kept raising the lethalness of the composition - and finally went up to 3,000 times more than what was necessary to infect a human being and his cells stayed completely disease free. Then they started testing his blood with other things like cancer and discovered that this kid was immune to everything! Then they found another kid with these codons turned on -then another one - then another one - then 10,000, then 100,000, then a million of them - and at this point, UCLA, by watching world-wide DNA= testing, estimates that 1% of the world has this new DNA. That breaks down to approximately 60 million people who are not human by the old criteria.

[Thirdshifter]

They have also try to infect crocodiles and couldn't. Researches are trying to understand how understand how the crocodile does it and they expect that in 4-5 years they will fully understand it.

I say.. screw that. Let people die from Aids.

[youngyew]

About 10 or 11 years ago in the US, there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn't test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever!

He was taken to UCLA to see what was going on and those tests showed
that he didn't have normal human DNA. In the human DNA we have 4 nucleic acids that combine in sets of 3 producing 64 different patterns that are called
codons. Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off, except for 3 which are the stop and start codes, much like a computer. Science always assumed that the ones that were turned off were old programs from our past. I've always seen them like application programs in a computer.

Anyway...this boy had 24 codons turned on - 4 more than any other human being. Then they tested this kid to see how strong his immune system was.They took a very lethal dose of AIDS in a petri dish and mixed it with some of his cells and his cells remained completely unaffected.

They kept raising the lethalness of the composition - and finally went up to 3,000 times more than what was necessary to infect a human being and his cells stayed completely disease free. Then they started testing his blood with other things like cancer and discovered that this kid was immune to everything! Then they found another kid with these codons turned on -then another one - then another one - then 10,000, then 100,000, then a million of them - and at this point, UCLA, by watching world-wide DNA= testing, estimates that 1% of the world has this new DNA. That breaks down to approximately 60 million people who are not human by the old criteria.

I am skeptical about this whole article, having noticed so many glaring errors in this short excerpt. I googled for "this boy had 24 codons turned on", and I got a few webpages which reported the same paragraphs. And to my surprise - most of them are webpages about indigo children - still a disputed pseudo/proto science.

Anyway, they don't even study their genetics better before writing this whole piece:

1. There are 4, not 3 codons which code for start/stop: 1 for Start and 3 for Stop.
2. "Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off". This is simply untrue and misleading. All the 60 (64-4) codons are being used, translated and copied by our bodies, none of them are turned off at any time. All 60 of them codes for 20 amino acids, so there are some redundancies in the codons (meaning that a few codons coding for the same amino acid). Refer to this wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code) for more information.

Anyway, the only things that got turned on and off are genes, not codons.

[iQing]

I am skeptical about this whole article, having noticed so many glaring errors in this short excerpt. I googled for "this boy had 24 codons turned on", and I got a few webpages which reported the same paragraphs. And to my surprise - most of them are webpages about indigo children - still a disputed pseudo/proto science.

Anyway, they don't even study their genetics better before writing this whole piece:

1. There are 4, not 3 codons which code for start/stop: 1 for Start and 3 for Stop.
2. "Human DNA all over the world always has 20 of these codons turned on and the rest of them are turned off". This is simply untrue and misleading. All the 60 (64-4) codons are being used, translated and copied by our bodies, none of them are turned off at any time. All 60 of them codes for 20 amino acids, so there are some redundancies in the codons (meaning that a few codons coding for the same amino acid). Refer to this wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code) for more information.

Anyway, the only things that got turned on and off are genes, not codons.

Possibly...
but the idea of genetic mutation is interesting