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if aids is a virus is there a way to treat it like polio.?
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Default if aids is a virus is there a way to treat it like polio.? - 12-28-2008, 04:28 PM

If aids is a virus is there a way to treat it like polio. You know how polio has a vaccine. Is it possibel to create a vaccine for aids with the same principles as polio vaccine.
   
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Default 12-28-2008, 05:08 PM

Yes, and that idea is being researched right now with promising results. The big problem to that idea is the social issues it creates. Some people think that a vaccine against HIV/AIDS would allow kids to have free sex and therefore the downfall of the world.It is a good idea, and it will most likely pan out to be the best way to treat (prevent) the disease, if it can ever be used.
   
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Unfortunately, the HIV/AIDS virus changes its viral coat constantly and rapidly. That means that by the time the body recognizes it and produces antibodies to it, it has already changed and will no longer be affected by any antibodies. That is what AIDS is. AIDS means the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. That is the stage where the immune system, which has been trying to mount an immune response has totally exhausted itself. It is no longer able to produce antibodies (Immunodeficiency) , and so the body becomes a target for ordinary bacteria and some cancers, which were kept in check by the immune system. And that is also why there has been an intensive effort to produce a vaccine, but without success, so far.But, by using modern anti-viral and anti-retroviral drugs, the total amount of virus (the viral load) can be reduced. That allows the immune system to not have to work so hard, and so the patients can still protect themselves against ordinary bacteria.
   
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