12-04-2014, 07:03 PM
This was a few days ago. I thought I'd do my usual stint in my classes, just to remind the young ones about this scourge. I couldn't find anything in the news bulletins of the BBC that day... Rather strange feeling, then with the Midnight news edition this:
A team out in Botswana (researchers from Oxford University) found after a study that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS was being watered down by its need to replicate and it having to mutate to do so in human body cells.
The announcement was that AIDS would probably one day be harmless (goodness knows when that will be). However the research doctor interview did warn that the virus was still dangerous and contagious.
30 years after the crisis struck hard, are we seeing the end of a scourge at last, despite not finding any medicine or vaccine to counter it?
I don't know whether to believe it or doubt it.
Your thoughts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04stdyq The report is around 12'. There's a lot of "if"s in the report, though.
A team out in Botswana (researchers from Oxford University) found after a study that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS was being watered down by its need to replicate and it having to mutate to do so in human body cells.
The announcement was that AIDS would probably one day be harmless (goodness knows when that will be). However the research doctor interview did warn that the virus was still dangerous and contagious.
30 years after the crisis struck hard, are we seeing the end of a scourge at last, despite not finding any medicine or vaccine to counter it?
I don't know whether to believe it or doubt it.
Your thoughts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04stdyq The report is around 12'. There's a lot of "if"s in the report, though.