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| 2005/11/17-19 [Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:40638 Activity:kinda low |
11/17 The dude who was cured of HIV didn't have it in the first place:
http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20051116-015251-1581r
\_ Gee, what a surprise.
\_ Someone told me that Magic Johnson had been "cured" of AIDS, that
they haven't been able to measure virus in him for years. I
found that hard to believe. --PeterM
\_ First part sounds like the wrong words. Second part is
believable, the current powerful HIV medications can reduce
the viral load to undetectible levels. Doesn't mean he doesn't
still have HIV though..
\_ The guys I currently work for make blood testing devices--
they use something called protease chain somethingorother to
\- PCR, sort of invented by ex-UCB
person/surfer kary mullins who
uses his nobel prize to get
chicks and hangs out with OJ.
basically breed any of several hundred families of virii in
a blood sample from "undetectable" levels to where you can
actually measure them. So while possible that you wouldn't
detect something you're actively looking for (like HIV in
Magic's bloodstream) it's fairly unlikely, as far as I
understand the workings of the gizmos. -John
\_ The plural of virus is "viruses".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
\_ And the plural of anal retentive idiot is? Consider
me eduficated, thanks teach! -John |
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| www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20051116-015251-1581r Press International News. Analysis. Insight. |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus edit Plural of virus in Latin The word virus has no classically attested plural form in Latin. In antiq uity the word had not yet acquired its current meaning. a poisonous, deleterious, or unpleasant agent or principle; Nouns denoting countable entities (such as book) pluralize; noncountable enti ties (such as air, mood, valor) pluralize only under special circumstanc es. The term virus in antiquity appears to have belonged to the latter c ategory, hence the nonexistence of plural forms. The virii form would not have been a correct plural, since the -ii e nding only occurs in the plural of words ending in -ius. For instance, t ake radius, plural radii: the root is radi-, with the singular ending -u s and the plural -i. Thus the plural virii is that of the nonexistent wo rd virius. Leet-speak is the name given to variations on languages where frequen t intentional misspellings are common, even using numbers and symbols to replace the letters of a word. declension, but neuter second declension nouns ending in -us (rather than -um) are so rare that there are no recorded plurals. Possibilities include vira (in analog with 2nd declension) and virus (in analog with 4th declension masculine, although as a neuter noun the plural of virus in the 4th declension would be virua). |