when you say alot how much are you talking about 100,000's or 1,000,000's? just wounderin because my mom passed away from it last year. and her medical bills from ucla were 300k+
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when you say alot how much are you talking about 100,000's or 1,000,000's? just wounderin because my mom passed away from it last year. and her medical bills from ucla were 300k+
Apparently it was because of a genetic immunity to HIV that's very rare. Super interesting though.
The CCR5-delta32 allele confers immunity by preventing HIV from entering the CD4 T-cells. HIV uses CCR5 as a coreceptor to enter the cell. People who carry two copies of the CCR5-delta32 allele (homozygous) do not express CCR5 on their T-cells so the virus cannot enter and replicate. The allele is found at frequencies of 2−5% throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. It emerged during the Middle Ages and was naturally selected for as a result of either bubonic plague or smallpox; most likely smallpox.
I feel less worse about not using a condom with that hooker now.
Sucks tommy morrison is out of his prime, this could have been useful back then
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Originally Posted by Jay JC Chow
Thanks for the links and info - very interesting, particularly as my PhD thesis is related to AIDS (though on a much, much lower medical level, as it's in English Literature rather than any of the sciences). On the very unlikely off-chance anyone wants further info on that, some links to the poetry and medicine stuff I've taught at the bottom of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Hyatt